1939 DeWald radio

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Originally Posted by decojoe67

I just acquired this very nice all-original 1939 Dewald, model number unknown. It's larger than the typical tabletop set, yet slender and lighter than you'd expect. The front slopes back. It has all my favorite styling cues of the late '30's - waterfall cabinet, large airplane dial, green tuning eye, and bold grill slats. The only info I can find is a catalog page from 1939 that only has catalog numbers. If anyone knows it's actual model number, please let me know.

I think Dewald was a company that was like Silvertone was to Sears and Airline was to Montgomery Wards, it was a house brand for a department store, and so because of that they didn't actually use model numbers but rather Cat. No. (Catalog Numbers) for identifing radios, so whatever the Catalog Number was that you saw in that Catalog Ad for this radio was, that more than likely WAS the model number of the unit.

With the above information in mind, more than likely this radio was made by another company for Dewald, like maybe Stewart-Warner, or Wells-Gardner, or some other company like that, and if that's the case you'll have to look for a chassis number and look up the chassis number under one of those company names and see what comes up.

Hope this helps.