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This was about the last year for any "legged" consoles. It's not uncommon to find radios that people "modernized" back then by cutting the legs off. I suspect that's what happened here. Even so with the legs on, this was an interesting "moderne" design, the shelf underneath just crying out for some ornament. I'll bet a similar base could be made by someone with a woodshop in their garage.
Also, with missing speakers out of these old radios: I imagine a lot of boys in the 1950's saw those big honkin' speakers in grandpa's old radio stored out in the barn, and took them thinking they'd be great for their hi-fi. What a surprise when they didn't work (since they didn't know about field coil speakers needing power to the field.)
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Reece
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