Mystery, Maybe Pooley?

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Here's a mess of Atwater Kent photos from the Radio Attic Archives website:

http://radioatticarchives.com/archive_a6.htm

Back in the 1920's, everything radio-related was originally sold separately. You paid one price for the reciever and the speaker, tubes, batteries, and cabinets were additional. Atwater Kent started in the manufacture of automobile parts, and fabricated most of their sets out of steel. Recognizing the lady of the house wanted something to blend with her household furnishings, they contracted the wooden cabinets to other manufacturers. Therefore, it would not be unusual to see a model 55 or model 60 chassis in any number of different wooden enclosures. Besides Pooley and Red Lion, Kiel was yet another of those outside cabinet vendors. (The 60C resembling a table pictured above was one of their biggest sellers.)