[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters serial numbers

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

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From: "Gerry Steffens" <gsteffens at bevcomm.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "'Rodney Boleyn'" <icysubdweller at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 10:22 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters serial numbers


>
> Is there any documentation or knowledge of how Hallicrafters assigned 
> serial
> numbers?
>
> I have a collection of McMurdo Silver radios in addition to the
> Hallicrafters collection.  Hallicrafters began assembling radios for 
> McMurdo
> Silver in September 1936 which was near the end of the Masterpiece V
> production.  Hallicrafters attached license tags under the McMurdo Silver
> chassis they assembled.  The early Masterpiece VI radios had a paper 
> version
> of the Hallicrafters license tag with a serial number.  Later Masterpiece
> VIs had metal license tags with serial numbers.  Both the paper and metal
> tags are identical to the metal tag on my SX-28 and tags on other
> Hallicrafters equipment of that vintage, complete with the preprinted "h"
> followed by a number.
>
> Is there a connection of the serial numbers to when the unit was 
> assembled?
> If so, do we know what that connection is?  Do we know when they switched 
> to
> metal tags from paper?
>
> A variant of the Masterpiece VI has surfaced.  We know of three of them, I
> have one.  I am attempting to determine when they were produced as there 
> is
> no Silver documentation of any such variant.  Were these early
> pre-production models?  Late production modifications?  Or what?
>
> After the Silver bankruptcy in November 1938, Davega City of New York 
> bought
> the inventory of hardware and continued to sell Masterpiece VI and 15-17
> radios into 1941.  Might these radios be of that genre?  Or, Radio News
> magazine published one ad for the 1939 Masterpiece, actually after the
> Silver shutdown.  Could these radios be a planned 1939 version?
>
> If there is any knowledge of Hallicrafters serial numbers, it might be
> helpful in finding answers to these questions.
>
> Thanks for any assistance,
>
> Gerry
>
>
> Gerald L Steffens  P.E.
> Oronoco  MN
>
> Radio Historian, collecting & restoring E.H. Scott, Heath, McMurdo Silver,
> Hallicrafters, National, Zenith Transoceanic & any other interesting 
> radios
> & classic Oldsmobiles
>
> Collections stand at about 300 radios, 5 Oldsmobiles & a 1950 GMC long bed
> 1/2 ton
>
>
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