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Someone really built a hot rod radio there. The cabinet is probably a battery farm radio, hence the shelf for the cabinet.
Zenith sometimes used Rola speakers like that (or so I've been told) and that grill cloth is the same as what I've seen on some of my other Zeniths-it's possible this had a reed-type speaker when it was a battery set, which was lost during the AC upgrade.
It's possible this was converted to shortwave operation at some point, and when the maker just decided to log the stations off of the am dial.
The eye tube is also a later addition. Looks like every mod that a kid would make to a table radio circa 1936-8. Looking in depression era magazines, you'll note that almost all of the reader-submitted photographs showing off their dx rigs were almost always lower quality sets that had been modified. This is one such set.
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