In a Nutshell
It's in the kitchen that most people listen to radio - so it be the ideal kitchen radio

About pre-war plastics:
Of the five prewar plastics catalin, beetle, urea, plaskon and bakelite, catalin is the gem of plastics, urea the rarest, beetle the funniest, plaskon the most elegant and understated and bakelite the most ordinary. All were originally trade names of companies that used phenol-formaldehyde resin invented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, to cast objects like kitchen ware, radio cabinets, jewelry, and what have you. They differ mostly in their fillers and the way they were cast. CATALIN is cast as a liquid into molds where it is hardened slowly and with no pressure. By mixing different colors and gently stirring the mold before hardening very artistic and unique swirl patterns for radio cabinets have been created, that can serve as a fingerprint for each individual catalin radio, allowing to trace its ownership around the globe. The nicest UREA radio I have owned and worked on was a Telechron 8H67 alarm clock radio in blue-pink-white marbled Urea (ref.1). Radios made from BEETLE look like as if they were dirty plaskon radios. They are made from (white) plaskon, which however is mixed with a mostly brown but often also green and/or golden second color (see my two GE KM-51 radios for sale). PLASKON is an urea formaldehyde resin, also molded at low temperature, and looking best when it comes in white. Rarely plaskon was made also after the war. BAKELITE is phenol formaldehyde mixed with fillers and molded at high heat and under high pressure. The color is always a dark brown, even when colored fillers are used, since color doesn't survive the heat. Production of these plastics was not resumed after the war, since new materials like polystyrene, melamine, acrylic, lucite, PVC and others were invented, that had better properties and could be injection molded.

Additional information:
ref.1: http://www.greenhillsgf.com/Project_Telechron_8H67.htm
ref.2: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/emerson_dq_333_chdq.html
ref.3: https://www.radio-antiks.com/IndexRadio-Antiks_Silvertone_4666.htm
ref.4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lYb7ddANn4

About my Radio:
Often radio models were made in cabinets with the same shape but different material, like this Emerson "Big Six" model FL-414 (bakelite and plaskon), where the latter is normally much rarer. The same cabinet may even have been used with a different chassis, as for example another 1941 Emerson radio, model DQ-333 (ref.2). Big Six, because the radio has an extra tube right at its front end, boosting its sensitivity and selectivity. The design of the radio reminds us of the "Overlapping Layer" style wood radios by Silvertone (ref.3), that give it an explicit and distinct 3-dimensional look. It also is a quite substantial radio when for example compared with a rare post-war 5-tube plaskon radio made in Japan (pict.19). It plays perfectly as you can see in the youtube video (click on pict.20 or go to ref.4). Since we don't have any strong AM station left here in Chilliwack, BC, I used a wireless record player model 5849 made by Silvertone (also on youtube), to tune in at about 580 kHz on the AM scale. It plays Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" on the 78 rpm RCA Victor record 20-6420 from 1956. Please e-mail me (Kris) for any questions, ich spreche Deutsch, je parle Français.

Here are the specifications:

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