Re: Mystery vintage electric fire/hotplate. Identified as a Magnet (GEC) D2400.
Gill... rather your 15 quid than mine, we've metaphorically rolled our eyes here a great many times over "expert" valuations and assessments of radio and related items and the truth is that, regarding classes of object that hardly anyone has paid any attention to at all, there scarcely are any experts. I'm sure, though, that a few of us will await the report with curiosity if you go ahead.
Lawrence, I've just been looking at comparable illustrations in a 1927 Sunco catalogue, about the nearest thing I have to the 1931 GEC one, and I'm often quite at a loss to tell where a particular illustration is completely an artist's impression, or a touched-up photo, or just possibly a real and unaltered photograph of the item concerned. I suspect that some of the differences you cite, especially the different number of slots, mean that the catalogue image is wholly or in part the work of an artist.
Paul
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