[Arran]

Thanks guys!
I cleaned them up some before I took the pics. That five band dial got my attention on the export. I think the other is a pretty radio, but that actually has some veneer issues that I am not sure how to deal with. A break on the right hand rounded corner-- Maybe I will do nothing and just leave it. Both of these sets have the largest rubber cushions for the chassis I have ever seen! I am checking renovated radios to see if they have a good match for replacing them. The ones in there are like bricks!

Gene

They look to me like just ordinary chassis washers, Philco didn't use those but many other makes did depending on the year, a number of places carry them along with Renovated radios, Radio Daze and AES included. The five band set definately looks like an export model, probably the brand Z equivailent of a Philco Tropic or an RCA International series model. One good thing about it is that it's a transformerless set most likely, since it has a ballast tube, the bad news is that the ballast may be cooked but that is preferable to the all too common barbecued power transformers synonymous with this brand.
Unfortunately unlike a Philco Tropic the striped inlay is likely something fake like Dinoc, or at least some of it is, so best to clean it up and preserve it since it's in decent shape. What I have never understood about many of the big American makes in the 1940s is they only produced spread band shortwave sets for the export market. The Canadian divisions of Philco, RCA, G.E, etc, regularly produced and marketed house sets with 4, 5, and 6 bands even after the war.
Regards
Arran