A big Philco cathedral

[vortalexfan]

Check out this link below:

https://philcoradio.com/gallery2/1935a/#Model_144B

The Philco Radio website, has lots of information on almost all of the Philco Models ever made including Philco Factory Service Manuals for almost every single model of Philco Radio ever made.

The Model 144B Cathedral Radio sold for $65 in 1935, which is the equivalent of about $1,228.70 in todays money, which means these radios were a huge investment during the depression, almost as much as a used car back then.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

Check out this link below:

https://philcoradio.com/gallery2/1935a/#Model_144B

The Philco Radio website, has lots of information on almost all of the Philco Models ever made including Philco Factory Service Manuals for almost every single model of Philco Radio ever made.

The Model 144B Cathedral Radio sold for $65 in 1935, which is the equivalent of about $1,228.70 in todays money, which means these radios were a huge investment during the depression, almost as much as a used car back then.

Thanks so much for the link. I have used that site many times before and it's excellent. On ARF I did a thread on the variations of the 144B model. Typically they are like the one pictured on the Philco website. Black slightly wedged bezel with black acorn style knobs. So far I have come across 3 others like mine with the chocolate brown "stretched octagon" beaded bezel and chocolate brown rosette knobs. My conclusion is that at some point in the run, as with many Philco sets, whatever parts were available were used to complete a production run. I was not able to debunk that it's the way it came from the factory.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

Thanks so much for the link. I have used that site many times before and it's excellent. On ARF I did a thread on the variations of the 144B model. Typically they are like the one pictured on the Philco website. Black slightly wedged bezel with black acorn style knobs. So far I have come across 3 others like mine with the chocolate brown "stretched octagon" beaded bezel and chocolate brown rosette knobs. My conclusion is that at some point in the run, as with many Philco sets, whatever parts were available were used to complete a production run. I was not able to debunk that it's the way it came from the factory.

I've got your radio's big brother the 116B, and that thing is a pain in the butt to align.
The cabinet on mine was stripped at one point in time so I need to figure out how to properly refinish the cabinet so it has the contrasting tones like it originally did.