mbear2k
10-19-2011, 06:53 PM
No affiliation. No price - listed as a '52, but looks slightly newer to me. Has a remote.
http://rochester.craigslist.org/atq/2658483984.html
http://images.craigslist.org/5V25U05P23nd3o53l2baje8e8126b08c41dbf.jpg
http://images.craigslist.org/5T45Z05X33n53k43l3baj3cf54072638418d7.jpg
http://images.craigslist.org/5Y15Q45S03ob3p03l7baje227240ecc7f1760.jpg
http://images.craigslist.org/5Q55W15P03k93m13l8bajdd3992585f0c1d03.jpg
David Roper
10-19-2011, 08:27 PM
1959 or 1960. The 110 degree CRT gives it away (among other style cues), look at the depth of the cabinet...or rather the lack thereof.
old_coot88
10-19-2011, 08:51 PM
1959 or 1960. The 110 degree CRT gives it away (among other style cues), look at the depth of the cabinet...or rather the lack thereof.
Yup. I worked on many of those puppies as metal cabinet table models. Don't remember seeing one in a floor-standing cabinet before.
wa2ise
10-20-2011, 03:29 PM
That does look like a portable TV chassis GE made into a shallow console. Actually make sense, sometimes the marketing types do something that makes sense. "Not a lot of room in your place, or you don't want a space hog, but you still want a console TV set, get this one."
old_coot88
10-20-2011, 05:25 PM
They were a little bigger than a standard portable. More like a table-model "luggable". Some had handhold slots in the sides rather than a top handle.
Eric H
10-20-2011, 07:43 PM
One of the GE Designer Series from 1959/60, I have a Tabletop with a similar chassis, the back looks identical, like they just used the tabletop back on a console set.
I wonder if that remote really goes with that set?
http://vintagetvsets.com/images/1958GEDesignerTV.jpg