• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL)

• Year
• 1936/1937

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 56238

• • Brand: Silvertone

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• Number of Tubes
• 5

• Valves / Tubes
• 6D6 6D6 6C6 43 1-V

• Main principle
• TRF without regeneration

• Tuned circuits
• 2 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast only (MW).

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 5 inch = 12.7 cm

• Power out
• 1.7 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Plastics (no bakelite or catalin)

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Silvertone 4414 Election Order= 57D 4414 - Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago

• Shape
• Tablemodel without push buttons, Mantel/Midget/Compact up to 14

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 9.8 x 7.1 x 5.8 inch / 249 x 180 x 147 mm

• Notes

• This model family was designed by John R. Morgan in 1936 which won a price in October 1936 for "outstanding beauty" in the US "Modern Plastics Competition". The model first appeared as models 4414 in Ebony and 4415 in Ivory, already in "Plaskon" with the name "Election". But in the Sears catalog it is named as Bakelite! See also some summaries about Silvertone here.
  Rider's 8-15, a schematic from May 1, 1936 is for the models 4414, 4415, 4500, 4505 and 4506. Autotransformer! Speaker field is 1750 ohms. Direct tuning, 2-gang tuning condenser. One untuned RF stage. Broadcast from 545 to 1720 kHz. Undistorted output 0.98 watts, max. 1.64 watts. Price of model 4500 dropped from 11.95 to 8.95 in 1939.
  The followers: The Silvertone model Streamliner with chassis 101.393 from Colonial was available in black colored bakelite with Gold colored grille as model 4500, in Ivory as model 4505 and in Mottled Walnut as model 4518.

• Price in first year of sale
• 9.79 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Source of data
• The Radio Collector's Directory and Price Guide 1921 - 1965

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 8 = 1937 and before

• Mentioned in
• Collector's Guide to Antique Radios 4. Edition

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Riders 8-15

• Literature/Schematics (2)
• The Sears Silvertone Catalogs 1930-1942 (page 108)

• Literature/Schematics (3)
• Sears, Roebuck Catalogs (Silvertone) (# 173, Fall & Winter 1936/37, page 614.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 5479 models, 3211 with images and 4185 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Chicago (IL)