[Reece]

Don't think it's home made. The cabinet has curved front, veneer, typical factory glue blocks inside. The coil is not a plug-in coil, it's a typical broadcast band antenna coil. The brown square object on the coil is a capacitor that isolates the the antenna wire from the hot chassis radio. The dial is calibrated for broacast band and for 1.6 to 4.5 Mc, on which there is not much today, but I see no band switch anywhere to get that short wave band. Many times simpler radios included that band because they could just select fewer turns on the broadcast coil to tune short wave. Sometimes the switch was on the back of the chassis. Tube shield (Goat shield type) missing on the first tube on the left, see the shield grounding clip at the base. I think this is a no-name drugstore or similar set. Underneath the speaker grill are two little nail holes: the name plate was probably there. Sets were rebranded for drugstores, dime stores, etc. in that way. I've got one a bit older myself with no name but the two little "snake bites" where the little tin name plate had been. The 25Z5 is the rectifier, the 43 the output tube (also with 25 volt heater), and the others are RF amplifier and detector/audio, 6 volts each. The total is 62 volts, with the remaining 58 or so volts taken up by the metal ballast tube. Incidentally, you can sand and clean up that tube and spray it with barbecue black paint to make it look good. It will get HOT in operation. It's a tuned radio frequency set, really intended for local listening.

Reece