Oh, MAN -- some people have all the luck. $175 seems totally reasonable for that scarce set.
You're right, that swoopy Streamline Moderne style was big about 10 years earlier. My GE F-63 is from 1937:
Philco made similar 1937-1938 radios (37-610 and the like). There are probably a bunch of others.
Phil Nelson
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