Setchell Carlson Model 15

[decojoe67]

Very cool and very uncommon sets. Value-wise I would say it's pretty moderate due to the simple lines, but still pretty rare. Amazing you had the hardware to make the tabletop complete. Without it would've killed it's value. Setchell-Carlson is a mysterious company. I have a factory radio from 1940 from them and not only is the factory schematics hand drawn, but there're are rather odd elements to the set and crudely done assemblies. It must been a fairly small operation, at least in the early days.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

Very cool and very uncommon sets. Value-wise I would say it's pretty moderate due to the simple lines, but still pretty rare. Amazing you had the hardware to make the tabletop complete. Without it would've killed it's value. Setchell-Carlson is a mysterious company. I have a factory radio from 1940 from them and not only is the factory schematics hand drawn, but there're are rather odd elements to the set and crudely done assemblies. It must been a fairly small operation, at least in the early days.

Hey Joe, I agree they're not much to look at. They are first most of historical significance to me because I basically live in the back yard of Setchell Carlson country, being only about 100 miles from where these were manufactured. The extra parts I had on hand actually came from a very poor 2nd example of my 2500. I found those two sets only a few years apart. It's hard telling just what else could show up from this company around here. When Setchell Carlson came out with that radio nicknamed "The Jet", they really broke the boring mold. Oddly enough I've never run across one of those locally.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Hey Joe, I agree they're not much to look at. They are first most of historical significance to me because I basically live in the back yard of Setchell Carlson country, being only about 100 miles from where these were manufactured. The extra parts I had on hand actually came from a very poor 2nd example of my 2500. I found those two sets only a few years apart. It's hard telling just what else could show up from this company around here. When Setchell Carlson came out with that radio nicknamed "The Jet", they really brook the boring mold. Oddly enough I've never run across one of those locally.

Yes, it seems that they grew sizably after WWII, and, along with the "Jet", they became more well known. Before that they were rather piecemealed together radios often using generic cabinets. One thing I can say about my '40 S-C radio is that the chassis is actually a high quality one that performs above average. They didn't cut corners in that area.