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Yes! That was a factory set-up...Rated a KW+ AM Mode...Very sought after, not very many built that way. Seen those sell in good/updated working order for $5,000+ USD...
Basket case versions can sell for $2K +/- if all parts there and chassis/and desk are in restorable condition.
Roughly $1,700 USD in 1958...
TODAY's USD = $15,000+ ...that's just for the Amp! Add the matching Johnson Transmitter and that National HRO receiver you were looking at another $1,000+ USD in 1958
$5k ain’t near to the true value of one close to like-new. It’d be a bargain at that price.
$15k is a ways short of conversion price from 1958. (X10 is the rough start).
I wasn’t kidding about build a room around it.
Start to understand (study) what foreigners (Japanese, especially, with their profound respect for excellence) see in “American-made” during the 1920-1960 period.
See also how nothing’s left today
(A demonstration. Hit the ON key after a checklist procedure, and
an automatic but hidden lighting program dims & barely flickers some of the room lighting unevenly. And the faintest sound of a dynamo spinning up is more felt than heard. )
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