Help me identify an antique Zenith TV?
 

Hi! I got an old Zenith tv when my company was moving out old furniture. They were using it as a decorative piece, but it’s visually in good condition. I don’t think the TV works, but all the pieces are intact and there are replacement parts still taped inside. We’re moving and my fiancé wants me to get rid of it, but I love it and am trying to convince him it’s worth keeping :)

I am trying to figure out when it was made/what it is. Any chance you all can help me figure it out? The paper taped to the inside (picture attached) says “TV Chassis 14M23”

Zenith's best monochrome chassis they made basically that same chassis in dozens of different cabinets from roughly 1958 to 1974. They kept making slight revisions and changing the chassis number until N year 1966 then they decided it was perfect and left it be until they replaced it with Solid State monochrome chassis in the mid 70s.
The M in the chassis number indicates 1965 year. These sets are pretty easy to fix. There are around 2 multi-section can electrolytic caps on the chassis that should be changed each cap has 3-4 sections so probably 7-10 new individual electrolytics (1 per section). And something like 15-20 paper dielectric caps to change and maybe the K networks.

Tubes typically are still good, but if not are available for cheap on eBay and other vendors.

Analog TV is no longer broadcast so you will need either a DTV converter box and antenna for broadcast TV, a legacy signal source with analog RF output or a modern HDMI signal source and one or 2 small boxes to convert that to RF.

Very good to know. So 1965?

Any thoughts on what it might be worth?

It depends on your regional market, who you would want to buy it, and condition of the CRT.

Shipping cost typically eliminates buyers that can't get it themselves. If the CRT is good $40-100 in most places is about what a TV collector would pay. Bad CRT and a collector is going to pay $5-25. In some places an interior decorator, museum or film production might be willing to shell out several times that, but those buyers are typically unicorns.
In some places there's nobody interested and you can't give those away. In most places it costs $30 to dispose of a CRT because some idiot in government thinks CRT glass is toxic.

Call me crazy, but, , , , ,

I say keep the TV and dump the fiance, there's plenty of good men here who'd love to marry a woman whose into antique TVs :banana:

I agree. Keep the TV
Best large screen B&W chassis ever built. Go old school & put family
pixs on top etc. Very nice knob style & good looks. Besides you will have to
pay to get rid of it at the dump.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !