In a Nutshell
Very unconventional design of an early tombstone radio, more like a portable console radio

Introduction:
On March 15, 1929 the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) bought the Victor Talking Machine Co. for $154M. Up to then RCA had been a selling agency for radio makers General Electric and Westinghouse. RCA owned the patent of Edwin Howard Armstrong's heterodyne receiver and used it to monopolize the market for this type of receiver until 1930. There were three ways to get a superhet: buy it from RCA (or one of their partners Westinghouse, AT&T and GE), buy a "kit" from the competitors or build one yourself. In the early 1930's, the superhet receiver had ousted the Tuned RadioFrequency receiver (TRF). Armstrong, who also was the inventor of FM in 1933, in grief and despair after being abandoned by his wife of 31 years, Marion (she was the secretary of RCA president David Sarnoff) and tired from his life-long legal patent battles jumped from the window of his 13th-floor apartment in New York on Jan.31, 1954. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1980. The early superhets were large and expensive consoles. The Great Depression asked for smaller, more compact and lower cost radios. Canadian Westinghouse built a compact 8-tube version of the "Columaire" grandfather clock radio in 1931, RCA introduced the "Superette" 8-tube line in 1931 with the R7 table radio and R9 console (ref.3). General Electric with this "compact" 40-pounder "Junior" S-22 tombstone radio with the same chassis joined the club. It was the first jointly designed RCA Victor set, and several variants were offered, i. a. this S-22X with an electric Telechron M45 clock in front of the speaker, and weighing 44 lbs. It appeals to both, radio and clock collectors since the radio and clock are totally independent of each other.

Additional information:
ref.1: https://www.radio-antiks.com/IndexRadio-Antiks_GE_S-22.htm
ref.2: https://antiqueradio.org/GES-22XTombstoneRadio.htm
ref.3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superette_(radio)
ref.4: https://youtu.be/d0uG8wnd5L4

About my Radio:
The radio has been professionally restored by a former owner, who refinished the cabinet and went in detail through a complete electric restoration, including all capacitors, out-of-tolerance resistors, and even some wiring. I was lucky enough to find one of the two original Mershon copper condensors. The original grille cloth was torn, but fortunately an exact replica is available from Kenny Richmond. My radio has 7 out of 8 globe type tubes (the 8th anyway being hidden under a shield). The tubes include a matched pair of RVC (Radio Valve Company of Canada Ltd., Toronto, distributed by CMC [Canadian Marconi Co.] and by CGE [Canadian General Electric]) UX-245 large globe triodes that would trade for about US$ 400, as well as 2 blue glass ARCTURUS globe tubes. The tube complement adds enormously to the back appeal of the radio, in particular at night with all the filaments glowing. The original 4-prong phono connection was reversibly and uninvasively modified to accept 3.5mm phone adapters or a RCA phono jack. The connector is installed by screwing it onto the corresponding original factory terminal. The clock got an additional on/off switch. The two clock knobs had been lost as most of them, but replaced by what is believed to be an excellent substitute out of wife's jewelry box. A youtube video showing the radio playing is available by clicking on thumbnail 52 or by going to ref.4. Please e-mail me (Kris) for any questions, ich spreche Deutsch, je parle Français.

Note added in proof Aug.5, 2022:
RMorg has a sales record for a S-22X of $2460 (ref.5). This radio was sold on eBay (item 140372932623) on July 13, 2013 by Lance E. Wenner, owner of nucow.com in Florida and was claimed to be the best extant survivor world-wide (ref.6). It had gone through pervasive cosmetic and electronic restorations, some of them imho extreme (non-authentic decals, invasive and non-reversible addon controls with new holes in cabinet, distorted speaker cloth, no clock knob substitutes, built-in non-authentic loop antenna). Unfortunately that radio was damaged by USPS and is "gone forever". If Lance was right, the best survivor title should go to my radio. The story also tells us that shipping a 44 lbs radio is risky. So, please pick it up.
ref.5: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/general_el_rca_s22x.html
ref.6: nucow.com/Wooden%20Radios/AR2pg1.html

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