[jrblasde]

Haha, thank you sir! I’ve been eyeballing a 47-1230 console for sale over north of Bentonville, Arkansas for a while. Pretty similar to mine but with a record player. But where can I conceal another console in my house?   I’ve also seen a 49-909, which was one of three AM/FM sets from the 1949 model year. It also features a power transformer, so I imagine it’s a pretty nice set.

Or, who knows? Maybe I’ll get a prewar set! I do love the look of the so-called “shouldered” tombstones, but they seem to command a high price.

Lastly, I do have that nasty 48-482 in my attic. But it’s really just so gross and coated in a goopy syrup of smoke resin and dust. I’ve also slowly been robbing it of minor parts. Maybe I’ll drum up the courage to tackle it. It’s local to Tulsa (the chassis and interior of the cabinet are stamped to indicate that the set was sold in 1950 from a former shop here in Tulsa). That would be a neat bit of history to restore. I saw it on eBay, and it caught my eye because I saw a preset button marked KOMA. Nowadays KOMA is an FM station (92.5 MHz, broadcast out of Oklahoma City), but it used to be an AM station long ago. I imagine it could have been received here during the night time when AM stations increased their broadcasting power.