FM Converter and Musicale serial numbers?

[Norman S Braithwaite]

I am interested in serial numbers for estimating production of the Scott Musicale, a postwar high fidelity phonograph-amplifier set, and the FM converter for estimating total production quantities.  On the Musicale, the serial number can be found on a tag attached to the back of the preamplifer.  I do not know if or where a serial number is located on the FM converter.  Please post if you can help.

 

Thank you,

Norman

[John Neuman]

Norman,

   I closely examined my Scott FM converter. I did not open it up but from the outside I could find only an ink stamped "420" near the antenna terminal. Serial number? Inspection stamp?

John Neuman  

[Norman S Braithwaite]

John:

I do not believe that is a standard antenna line impedance.  It is certainly plausible as a serial number.  Let's see what others are able to report.

Are you familiar with EIA date codes on components?  If so, I am curious what appears on components used in the FM converter in order to get an idea of when they were produced.

Norman

John Neuman said:

Norman,

I closely examined my Scott FM converter. I did not open it up but from the outside I could find only an ink stamped "420" near the antenna terminal. Serial number? Inspection stamp?

John Neuman

[Kent King]

John/Norman -

 

I looked at my only FM converter, and I have a black ink stamp "398" near the antenna terminals. Although this is only two examples, it sure looks like it might be a serial number. It will be interesting to see if any others here have similar numbers.

 

Norman...I have two Musicale preamps here, and one amplifier. The serial numbers on my preamps are: 69 and 312. The number on the amplifier is 14325. That must be some sort of encoding or baseline number, as we know they didn't build that many of the Musicale.

 

It will be interesting to see what other numbers turn up with both of these...

 

Kent

[Kent King]

Norman -

 

Was moving some stuff around last night and found i have a 2nd FM converter. It is stamped "123". John seems to have the high number so far at 420.....have you gotten any other data?

 

Kent