was exploring an abandon mining camp and came accross several 60s and early 70s sears and wards catalogs. ill scan these over the next few weeks.

dont laugh to hard

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Thanks for posting, quite neat.

I find it quite strange that the typefaces in these pages are exactly the same as those used in the Sears catalogs I have from the same era, when the two companies were rivals.

That list of tubes and kines brought back memories. When I was really small, in the late '50's, an uncle of mine would buy parts from Wards and Sears and do his own repairs. The relatives thought he was an oddball!

How wierd, that last pic looks live a 25v CRT which was 25" viewable.. The smaller set above looks like it had one of those 23EGP22 22" CRT's.

Still to come across these sets now would be rare! Even though most were wells-garder sets probably

Thanks for the post

How wierd, that last pic looks live a 25v CRT which was 25" viewable.. The smaller set above looks like it had one of those 23EGP22 22" CRT's.

Still to come across these sets now would be rare! Even though most were wells-garder sets probably

I was wondering who actually built the chassis for Montgomery-Wards branded televisions. I remembered that Warwick Electronics made the guts for Sears-Silvertone TVs back in the '60s (I had a 21" Silvertone roundie, made in 1964, that may have been an RCA CTC12 clone; however, it was actually built by Warwick), but I had been wondering for some time about MW's TVs.

BTW, wasn't the 23EGP22 CRT rather troublesome in sets that used it? :scratch2: I seem to remember reading somewhere that these tubes were nothing but trouble, being replaced left and right at one point, or else they were very difficult to converge; I don't remember the details, only that I remember this tube getting some very bad press some time in the 1960s--with the result that Admiral and other TV manufacturers quit using it in their sets before the end of the decade.

Wells-Gardner and Admiral made a great deal of their larger sets. Admiral and Toshiba made some of their portables. Later; GE, Sharp, and even Zenith made some sets for them. I'm sure there were other companies that built TV's for MW. These are just the ones that I've seen.