Is it just me, or is the Sparton on this postcard really weird looking? It looks more English than American to me.

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This is most likely a modern repro postcard, with a company address
with ZIP code in the back. Somebody on e..y is selling similar repro
cards (he says it plainly) showing an early sixties Electrohome portable
TV carried by a young lady. I prefer old TVs to old TV postcards, but
it's true that cards don't need recapping and spare tubes...

Many Brazilian sets from the second half of the 1960's and early 1970's also looked like that as well - my first TV was a 1974 B&W Philco Ford table model with a similar design to that one on the postcard.

In my family there was a badged-as-Muntz console stereo/TV combo that is now found in Sams folders as being associated with the name "Concerto" as a unit. I have read some legal documents regarding extensive litigation as regards these sets from the early '60s, reagarding models of such description as sold under a different name, with fraudulent claims in such sale to benefits and incentives if a new owner of such set should manage to get a neighbor or friend to buy.... Apparently these sets sold for quite a bit more than the ones sold by the Madman himself....

The CRT was masked in similar fashion as to as shown, with a lot of the clear (appearing as black) border showing as a wide fringe of about 3/4 to a full inch revealed in the mask--as opposed to the more standard of between a quarter and half inch showing. :scratch2:

That's a set with a "push through" design, most mid 60s-onward european sets are built this way,

Most push through sets are based on the "shellbond" CRT launched by Philips in 1964, this was the first CRT to feature a tensioned rimband as an implosion protection device, eliminating the need for separate glass panels or epoxy bonded lenses

It may have been a technical advance, but, talking about just the style of this sets, I particularly don't like them. I really love the older ones, from the 1950's, I think they are more elegant, more glamourous.

It may have been a technical advance, but, talking about just the style of this sets, I particularly don't like them. I really love the older ones, from the 1950's, I think they are more elegant, more glamourous. Waddaya think of the old "halo lite" sets of the day.... :D

I really don't have much an opinion about them. I never saw one of them in person, so it's hard for me to say. Judging just by pictures of Halolight sets, I would say that they are a odd device... I believe that their advertising, saying that the Halolight feature was "better for viewing confort" had no foundation are all on real science, am I right?

I really don't have much an opinion about them. I never saw one of them in person, so it's hard for me to say. Judging just by pictures of Halolight sets, I would say that they are a odd device... I believe that their advertising, saying that the Halolight feature was "better for viewing confort" had no foundation are all on real science, am I right?
There was a school of thought that viewing television where there was no other source of light in the room led to eye fatigue. A small lamp on top of the set was a popular expedient. The stroboscopic flickering nature of the CRT type set (note how wagon wheels on westerns sometimes appear to be turning backward...) may have had to do with such fatigue, and a source of non-strobing light added supposedly minimized this effect.