1938 RCA Victor Am and Shortwave radio

[russa11]

Thought I would show you one of my vintage radios and a advertisement for it:

here is the ad:

 

[kpreed]

Welcome!

Enjoy the Lounge.
Great looking radio! I love radios and I have a few pre-WWII ones too.

 

[RetroToday]

What a beautiful radio.

I wonder who the cabinet was designed by? Its compact and has very nice features and you can see elements of where the design trend was about to go in the 1940s.

Interesting advertisment too; Do you have the electric tuner for the radio as well?
I do my best to hunt down old ads for my radios. I find it adds so much to any vintage or antique item when you have that kind of information along with it.

 

[russa11]

What a beautiful radio.

I wonder who the cabinet was designed by? Its compact and has very nice features and you can see elements of where the design trend was about to go in the 1940s.

Interesting advertisment too; Do you have the electric tuner for the radio as well?
I do my best to hunt down old ads for my radios. I find it adds so much to any vintage or antique item when you have that kind of information along with it.

This does have a tuning eye on it on the left side.

 

[RetroToday]

This does have a tuning eye on it on the left side.

Oh, that's what they mean by "electric tuning" in the ad?
I thought they were referring to some kind of separate remote control unit (that may be the thing the guy's tuning at the top of ad.)

Sorry, it's difficult to read the lettering on the advertisement.

 

[Mr. K.L.Bowers]

VERY nice! Is the tuning eye working?

 

[russa11]

VERY nice! Is the tuning eye working?

Thank you Mr Bowers. The tuning eye does work and the radio has a nice sound also.

 

[Fletch]

I wonder who the cabinet was designed by?

Quite a few RCA sets of the 30s were the designs of John Vassos, a Greek-born industrial designer and illustrator. Among his work for the company was the Victor Special all-aluminum portable Victrola, and from 1939, their first commercially available TV sets.

BTW russa11, I see your set came from my neck of the woods.
The pushbutton labels read, L-R:
WEAF WOR WJZ WNYC WABC WHN

 

[russa11]

Quite a few RCA sets of the 30s were the designs of John Vassos, a Greek-born industrial designer and illustrator. Among his work for the company was the Victor Special all-aluminum portable Victrola, and from 1939, their first commercially available TV sets.

BTW russa11, I see your set came from my neck of the woods.
The pushbutton labels read, L-R:
WEAF WOR WJZ WNYC WABC WHN

Wow you have really been eating your carrots or have a good zoom feature on your pc. Yes. It seems in it's former life it was in the New York area. I actually got this in New Hampshire.