There's a thread on ARF about this set, sounds like it might be worth saving.

http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=167177

http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-FREED-EISEMANN-TELEVISION-BEAUTIFUL-LOOK-/170652153688?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bba93758

Saw that one, never heard the name before.

There's a thread on ARF about this set, sounds like it might be worth saving.

http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=167177

http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-FREED-EISEMANN-TELEVISION-BEAUTIFUL-LOOK-/170652153688?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bba93758

Note that it includes a radio. There is a booster on the picture tube filament, so the set was well-used, thus probably reliable. I'd buy it, if I could.

Those look like escutcheons for magic eye tube(s). Anyone have a model number?

Phil "not bidding, just curious" Nelson

Didn't know they ever got into television. If you're into 20s radios, that is where you will typically find this brand. I believe they were one of the manufacturers who paid for the right to manufacture Neutrodynes, for the year or two that design was profitable.

Edit: they are in Rider's 3&5. In volume 5, there is a tv only chassis with a 6g5 eye tube. Presumably, the other eye tube would be for when the set was switched over to the radio chassis. Very odd looking set. That radio escutcheon screams early 1930's radio. Beware the brightener!

Oh I doubt there's any problem at all with the brightener.

Now, the tube on the other hand....

I wonder if they licensed the TV chassis from someone else. You wouldn't think that a moribund radio company from the early days would have the engineering horsepower to design their own TV from scratch.

Certainly an odd duck. From what I can see, everything's on one chassis and it has one central tuning knob (or is that two concentric knobs?). Did anyone else make a TV with AM radio on the same chassis?

Phil Nelson

I may check it out only 3 hours away. Freed eisenman made quality goods.

From what I've seen the original Freed-Eisemann fell apart early in the depression but the name sort of trudged along under different ownership. I have a table radio with their nameplate from about 36-38 I'd guess, and it is a pretty cheaply made set; I think it was made by someone else, who just slapped nameplates on depending on what the buyers wanted.

tvhistory.com mentions Freed-Eisemann 16" sets from 1949 but no pix. There is a print ad for a set. http://www.tvhistory.tv/1949-Freed-Eisemann-Ad.JPG The ad confirms the set had doors but nothing else.

I would be looking at something by Transvision given the continuous tuner arrangement, the cheap construction, and their making sets under several names and a NY address.

My Sightmaster by Transvision has a similar arrangement with one eye tube (no radio chassis specifically, but the tuner does show an AM dial section) but with the tuner on the left.

I will try to get a photo of a spectacular Freed-Eisemann battery set I have that puts this set to shame.

Would be interesting to know that the brand image "Freed Eisemann" meant to folks back in the 1940's. I once owned a Freed Eisemann Model NR-9A battery radio. It was so obscure that I got rid of it.

Carl

Somebody save it! I don't want to drive to Indiana.

John