[Ron Ramirez]

Greg

If it does not have the band switch, the chassis is Model 59. Both 57 and 58 had the band switch.

Is this the one you purchased?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/351202111582

It was discussed here when it was for sale:

http://www.philcoradio.com/phorum/showth...?tid=10815

Anyway - Congratulations, that looks like a beautiful, well-preserved photofinish. I did notice some wear on the grillebars which you should be able to easily correct.

Now about your radio. The 58C cabinet is identical to an early 59C cabinet as well as the photofinished 54C cabinet. The difference is in the band switch - the 58C will have one; the 59C does not. (The 57C also has a band switch.)

So you have a 59C.

I've never owned a 54C, 58C or 59C because they always sell for about double what I want to pay for one. I don't know who these sets are so popular and so expensive, but they do seem to be. Anyway, I have had a few coil sets from these cross my bench from back when I was rewinding coils for folks. I cannot recall whether the 59C ever used green silk covered magnet wire on its coils, but I am inclined to think not because it would be very unusual for Philco to go to a different supplier of magnet wire just for one radio model, and one of their cheapest models at that. I could be wrong, but for now, I'll stick with that thought.

One more thing. I don't know if you meant to do this or not, but your first post in this thread contained a lot of very small type. I changed it back to normal to make it easier to read.