Help me I.D. this Sparton deco console radio/phonograph.

[Ohighway]

In a moment of weakness I decided to bring this forlorn puppy home. Yeah, rough around the edges and all. But I'm a sucker for deco styling with a machine age/industrial bent.

Sparton radio/phono console. Pull out drawer for the phono, door opens for the radio and controls, two pull out drawers at the bottom.

Three bands. 6.0 > 18 MC Shortwave band. 550 >1600 KC AM radio band. And 200 > 300 FM band ??? Tube complement: 6e5 tuning eye, 6sg7, 7q7, 6sk7 (two), 6sj7 (two) , 5y3gt, 6s8gt, and single 6v6.

Unfortunately the sticker with the model number of this gem is torn off. Any ideas from the Sparton specialists ?

 

[jaymanaa]

Looks like a nice set to me, and it has a proper TX and rectifier.

 

[gadget73]

Looks like a model number on that tag on the back. 10AM76PA it looks like it says? See if this looks right.

http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Resources/590/M0018590.htm

 

[toxcrusadr]

Immediately pre- or post-war I would say. The square style of radio-phono is most often seen 1946-50, but there are prewar signs: machine age cabinet for one. The FM band is the old band that went away pretty quick after the war. Maybe 1941, or 1946, I'm guessing. What year did loktal tubes come out?

 

[toxcrusadr]

Phil's Old Radios site says loktal (or loctal) tubes were postwar, late 40s.

Edit: It's not shown on the Radio Attic's gallery of 7800 radios. I'm stumped.

 

[battradio]

Immediately pre- or post-war I would say. The square style of radio-phono is most often seen 1946-50, but there are prewar signs: machine age cabinet for one. The FM band is the old band that went away pretty quick after the war. Maybe 1941, or 1946, I'm guessing. What year did loktal tubes come out?

Loktal's where in use in 40-41 in philco and Zeniths looks like a 46 or so it not in my prewar book .

 

[toxcrusadr]

Thank you sir, I'm a bit rustier than I useta be on those date ranges.

Well I'm going to go with 40-41. Still doesn't help with a model #.

 

[toxcrusadr]

Found a pic of a model 1071 from 1941 that is very similar but the bars don't go all the way across. The link to its site was broken but here's the Google results:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...urce=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=94tRT86aLa3LsQK-uIDwBQ

Image is at the top of Page 3.

So it might be a similar model #.

 

[Ohighway]

Looks like a model number on that tag on the back. 10AM76PA it looks like it says?

OK, my second dunce move of the day. 10-76PA sticker on the chassis IS the model number of this unit. (I thought it was merely for the chassis and not the radio as a whole)

First dunce move today was bringing it home in the van today without anything to strap it down. Made what I thought was a gentle left turn and CRASH. It tipped over and fell. Lucky for me it's a passenger van with carpeting and I had a few folding chairs in the back to help cushion the fall. I was sure the dial face would be broken or cracked but I lucked out on that. Not so lucky.... on the upper left it became structurally unbonded and there is now a crack in some curved veneer up there. Repairable but I'm pissed at myself.

Here's specifics off radiomuseum.org.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sparks_wit_1076pa_1076_pa.html

 

[toxcrusadr]

Cool radio. I like that mahogany veneer.

Glossed right over gadget's model no. posting! Good eye.