Here is a brand ya probably never seen: Grinnell Model 116

[benman94]

At it's height, Grinnell Brothers had 14 stores, 13 in Michigan and one in the Toledo area. The main store in Detroit on Woodward was a five or six story Albert Kahn structure, pretty ritzy from the photos I've seen of it; reminds me a lot of Steinway Hall in New York. I'd say they were doing a decent business. Your set was probably owned buy upper-middle or upper class folk. They would have had to have been in order to afford a set from a place like that. I've heard from realitives that identical appliances, TVs, radios, phonographs, and the like would often sell for a whole C-note more at Grinnell Brothers when compared to J.L. Hudson's up the street, or Smith-Bridgeman's in Flint. Back in 1950 that would have been pretty substantial...