This 14 tube console was a local pickup here in Vermont from eBay for under $45.00. Later I spent about 5 times that much on the parts and services it needed. This once nice set fell on hard times and ended up in pieces and without a grill or speaker cones. Eddie b. did a nice repro grill for me, Hank Brazeal did the reconing. Thanks also to y2kBruce for "blueprinting" his original grill for me. This set has six 45 tubes for output, the little tower on the power transformer is a choke in the power supply. It came with ALL original equipment Silvertone tubes (except for the 5Z3 rectifier) including a six pack of the special high output 45A tubes made just for Sears.

Grill cloth is an accurate repro, finish schedule was Special Walnut oil stain, a shellac coat, and several coats of gloss Watco lacquer with some toner coats tined with Solarlux Hickory NGR stain (specifically designed to mix with lacquer). Mohawk canned toner "Walnut Extra Dark" was used on the base and trim. The final coats were done with Watco semigloss lacquer. This was beautiful enough "off the gun" to require no rubbing out.

It is honestly- DECO. It is also perhaps the most beautiful of my recreations so far. But I must say the grill design (although pretty) isn't what one would call "acoustically transparent".