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That number could be a chassis identifier... If there is no service literature or info for any radios with the same chassis you could have the only documented specimen. Sometimes that means it was a prototype but often it was some model that for some reason either had poor sales or had a very high percentage of the sold sets destroyed before attaining collectable status.
I own and have owned radio and TV models and variants where there is no service literature and or mine is 1 of 1-3 that have been found...
IIRC the collector's guide to antique radios has a passage to the effect of ' there are over 3x as many distinct models reported in service literature as we list... most of which have been lost to time, but some of which we don't report because so few sell that we don't have sufficient data to determine their market value'.
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