[MrFixr55]

Yeah, definitely a BL200 (if a 5 tube set). Emerson made several transformer powered chassis in 1937 including the BL, L, R and others. I have a Westinghouse WR217; the chassis is an R model, made by Emerson. There should be a sticker on the bottom of the radio.

Here is a link to the radio on Radiomuseum:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/emerson_bl200.html

Here is the schematic from Nostalgia Air:
https://www.nostalgiaair.org/pdfs/Emerso...-BL200.pdf

Definitely a repaint, the Emerson logo above the dial is in gold on factory finish radios.

I have a few Emersons. Mom in Law's husband's father was an engineer for Emerson. Never met him though.

Emerson was one of many radios made in the Long Island City, Queens area and surroundings when it was a manufacturing hub for such companies as Eagle Electric, Swingline staplers, Ronzoni pasta, Silvercup bread, Bulova watches (and radios) Executone communications and PA systems, etc. Almost all of this are gone. The Silvercup building is now a movie studio, Silvercup Studios.

Grebe was a few miles to the east in what was Richmond Hill and is now Jamaica. Steinway Pianos is still in the area in nearby Astoria.