Please Help Me ID. This National Transistor Table Radio
 

I looks through many Web sights and can,t find this radio anywhere. The model number sticker is missing.
Perry.

It's probably battery only operated.
Matsushita couldn't use the National name in the US, because it was copyrighted by National radio in Malden, MA.
Later products were labeled National Panasonic for a few years.
No long wave, so it couldn't be for Europe. :sigh:

can you post any pics of the back? also of the chassis? I also think this is a domestic market radio. How did you acquire it?

National Radio Please Identify
 

Here are some more pics. This was my grandfathers radio. He got it in the early 60's
Thank you,
Perry

Your radio is earlier than 1960 somewhere between 1956 and 1958. i did a bit of research into panasonic's corp history sites and "national" says their first circuit board radio was made in 1955 "3b-267" and also started work on it's first transistor radio in 1956 "6c-1". i think your radio is the 2nd or 3rd model they made as the chassis number on yours is a 270 the numbers or letters before the 270 would have told if this was a pocket, table etc radio. I can't even find a picture of a 6c-1 radio, about the only chance to find out more info is to contact the national panasonic museum in Japan. they themselves might not have a picture of this model but would be happy to have a copy of your pics for their records.
Congrats ona a extremely rare find!

National transistor table radio
 

Does anyone have any idea of the value range for this radio?
Perry

Unless you somehow connect with someone who is looking specifically for this model, I would guess $15 - $20 as is (probably won't work with those old caps), and up to $50 in good working order. I am sure someone patient could ask $100 and maybe get it if they're lucky but I suspect that it would sit on the shelf forever at that price.

Are the screws on the front "factory" lf so what is attached to them? If they were added later as some sort of modification, I suspect that the value of the set would be diminished significantly.

jr

One neat thing I just noticed... despite this being a Japanese radio, it uses Philips//Mullard transistor numbers. I've never seen a Japanese radio which didn't use Japanese transistors

Ya know your post has got me wondering, I wonder if this is a 6c-1 model, matsushita might have been so eager to offer a transistor radio for sale "even at a loss" that they bought xsistors from philips just to not be leftout, Sony offered it's first transistor radio in 1955 and it is better to be second place rather than last place
Seiko did the same thing with the first quartz watch, "Astron" i think they only made 100 of them at a loss but made up the cost in prestige and technology on 2nd gen models.