1940s Westinghouse AM/FM Radio Model H-1821

[vortalexfan]

Hello everyone yesterday I picked up for $20 at a garage sale near me a 1940s vintage Westinghouse AM/FM Radio model H-1821 (which all the service literature such as Sam's and Rider's referred to it as an H-182, which is kind of weird when the back of my radio specifically says "Model H-1821").

It's a "Walnut" Bakelite cabinet and the unit has all miniature 7 and 9 pin tubes in it which I thought was kind of unusual for a radio from the mid to late 1940s, it also uses a 4 watt 120v nightlight bulb for the pilot light.

I had to order a NOS Interlock cordset for the radio off ebay because the original cordset had worn through to bare wire at where the cordset attached to the back of the radio.

The Radio is almost pristine minus a few paint splatters on the cabinet, of which most of it I was able to get off without harming the bakelite (there's still a couple of bigger paint splatters on the cabinet and tuner dial that I can't seem to get off as easily as the smaller splatters).

Just out of curiosity, how rare is this set? I'm wondering becuse when I google this radio's model number nothing comes up in search results, not even anything in Radio Museum's website!

Thanks for your help with this Radio.