Its Acquisition week!

[boater sam]

Nice radio, and an unusual one inside with its vertically mounted chassis -

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/d...-428458907 -

but it's definitely not from 1953, more like 1938.  I'm guessing you've taken the model number as giving the year, but Defiants at this period don't: model numbers are all over the place. For just one example, the top of range motor-tuned monster of a table set,  the MSH938, actually does date from 1938 or thereabouts,  but also exists in a console version, the  MSH957.

Paul

Thank you.  Silly me, what ever was I thinking.  They were never making 4v valves in the '50s.

So, you reckon prewar? That would explain the attention to detail, the '30s was when there were 3 men for every job and only the best was made.

Sam.