Interesting thread: How many TVs do you own?
 

At the moment, including the "daily drivers", I own a total of 17, a modest figure by many standards :D

About 50, I'll put some photos later :)

These are all mine, 28 sets...

B&W sets, working:
80 Zenith 16" ss, plastic cabinet
78 Zenith 9" ss, red plastic cabinet
71 Zenith 23" metal cabinet
67 Zenith 19" metal cabinet
66 Zenith 19" SC300, metal cabinet
63 Zenith 19" SC300, metal cabinet
61 Zenith 19" metal cabinet
61 Zenith 23" SC300, console
61 Zenith 23" console
60 Zenith 17" SC300, metal cabinet
60 Zenith 21" console
56 RCA 8" metal cabinet
54 Westinghouse 21" console "the capri"
50 Airline 7" - porthole
49 Admiral 20B1 console 10"
49 Hoffman 610 10"
48 Pacific-Mercury 12"
48 Motorola TS4J 7"
48 Motorola TS4J 7"
47 RCA 721TS 10"

B&W, not working:
57 RCA 14", metal cabinet - working, but I still need to paint the cabinet
50 RCA 6T65 16" console
49 RCA 8T244 10"
48 Emerson 612B 10", no CRT - I'm probably going to part this out
46 RCA 630TS 10"

color sets, working:
74 Zenith 25EC58 25" SC600, console, "the avanti"
65 Zenith 25MC33 21" SC400, console, "the orientale"
60 RCA CTC10, remote, console, "the wynnewood"

Marty: You know we have two tv's.

Mrs. Baines: Don't be silly, nobody has TWO television sets!

All I have at the moment is:
Zenith 12" b&w hybrids in different colors, qty of 5
GE 12" red-white-blue SF chassis, nice low hour set works great.
Sharp 3LS36 color, pink just like Phil's.
Two JVC pop-up sets with radio, 5" b&w.

Thirty-some, not counting a few waiting in the garage for restoration.

http://antiqueradio.org/televisions.htm

My wife has suggested it's time to get rid of some, and I'm coming around to that point of view.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

I have just three TVs:

19" Insignia (rebadged Sylvania) 19" class (18.5" diagonal) flat panel (daily watcher)

Zenith Sentry 2

RCA (Thomson) CTC-185 19"





Had lots more TVs (almost all of them in my basement) when I lived at the western end of Lake County, Ohio (Cleveland area), but I had to give most of them up :no: when I moved in 1972. Had to get rid of the rest of them in 1999 when I moved (again) to a small apartment. The only sets I could possibly have in this place are small portables, such as the Zenith J121Y 12" solid state set I brought with me (along with the two 19" color table sets mentioned above) when I came here.

I'm a late comer to this hobby - only 2:

1949 Emerson 639 7" 7JP4
1950 Zenith 24G26 16" 16EP4

Carl

I counted 11

About 60.

1. 1965 CTC-16
2. 1965 CTC-16
3. 1959 CTC-9
4. 1960 Zenith B&W Space command 400
5. 1956 CTC-5 Super
6 1949 Motorola TS-18 Bakelite
7. 1950 Philco
8. 1966 Admiral roundy metal cabinet
9, 1963 maggie roundie combo(all tube tuner/amp)
10. 1967 Admiral 23"(25) color remote set-metal cabinet
11. 1954 RCA B&W(coming this week)
12. Early 1950's Hoffman easy vision combo(coming this week)
13. 1976 Sony 5" color portable
14. 2007 Sony 52" LCD 1080P
15. 2008 Sony 47" LCD 1080P
16. 1970 Curtis Mathes 23" B&W mini-console(Matsushita) All wood(real) cabinet

A bunch....

I think it was 84 at last count. I haven't bought much lately. Almost all are in storage since I'm moving across country.

Forty three at last count. Motorola TS-4's (I think 7 of em), RCA CTC9, Zenith MC38 roundie. Zenith nc38 square, Maggie t933, Motorola 12 inch B/W round, Admiral 12 inch round B/W, Emerson mid 50's square B/W, 1966 RCA KCS156 B/W portable (a daily driver), JVC late 70's 17 inch color, JVC 3050 3" B/W (two of em), Sony D-50 CRT projo. Sony VPH-1000 CRT Projo, Sony VPH-1272 CRT Projo, NEC DP1200A CRT Projo, Sears 10 inch round B/W (very weird, the one with loctals and the vertical pushbutton tuner and HEAVY). Haier (LG) 42 inch plasma (adopted, repared and rarely use it), Sharp BPC 25 as the other daily driver.
There are more but I would have to go thru the house to get an exact grouping.
All hungry critters!

46. 44 vintage sets and 2 modern color CRT sets from the mid 2000s.

Admiral 19A11, 19A12, 19A15, 20X11, 20X12, 20X122 (x2), 22X12, 24A12, 24C16, 26X56, 30A12, 30A14, 30A16, P17E31, T102
Airline GSE-3020
Crosley 9-407
Emerson 639, 648
GE 800, 802, 806, 810
Hallicrafters 506
Motorola 17T5E, 7VT5, VT71 (x3 - TS-4, TS-4H, TS-4J chassis), 7VT2, 9T1, 12K2
Philco 49-1040, 50T-1401, 50T-1402, Predicta Princess, Predicta Siesta
RCA 630TS, 8T241
Sentinel 430
Silvertone 8132
Stromberg Carlson TC-10
Zenith G2439RZ "Monroe"

RCA SecureView 13" color prison set
Panansonic CT-32SL13G "Tau" series color TV

Last count...About 32 this includes the colour TV's as well...It's going to be 33 very shortly as I've bought another b/w TV for very little money.. I can't help myself! :D
Also have been in contact with someone who has several old tube sets that I can have for free!....when will it end...:rolleyes: I can see the garage getting used as storage now... Never mind everything else thats in there!

49 that I can recall...

B&W:
48 Hallicrafters T54
52 Magnavox 20" combo
56 Admiral red/white 17"
57 Hotpoint 17" 17 306
57 G.E. 17P1333 alligator case
57 Westinghouse 20" tabletop (big project)
59 Philco Miss America 21"
60 Zenith 17" Space Command 300
Philco Seventeener III (brown)
Philco Seventeener III (beige)
Philco Briefcase 19
61 Curtis Mathes 19" consolette
62 Philco Town & Country K3244BK 19"
64 Philco 19" portable
65 Magnavox U44 console
65 Arvin 65K38 12"
65 Penncrest 2325 12"
65 Packard Bell Astronaut 17"?
c.66 Magnavox 12"
66 RCA Victor CG225W 19/20" consolette
67 Zenith 12"
67/68 Sylvania 19" portable - new in box
69 Truetone (Admiral) 23" console
70 Admiral 12"
73 Teledyne PB 19" (G.E.)
74 Philco Ford 9"
(2) late-70's Zenith G2040W 19" portables
78 Sylvania 22" console
c.80 TG&Y 12" (Sampo)
83 Zenith 5" portable
85 Zenith (Sony) handheld Rain Man set
parting a 63 Magnavox 27" set - cabinet shot

Color:
59 RCA Victor CTC-9 console
61 RCA Victor CTC-11 console
67 Packard Bell CSW503 23" console
68 Sylvania CF504W D08 console
69 Emerson 26C38 23" console (hot chassis)
69 Sylvania CF525CHR D11 console
71 Packard Bell C96346WAL (Panasonic) 19"
73 G.E. PortaColor II
73 Zenith Chromacolor 23DC14 console
74 RCA XL-100 console
78 RCA XL100 EC333W 13"
83 Sylvania E34-53 console
84 Sylvania E34-52 25" console
85 RCA 25" CTC-121 stereo tabletop
03 Broksonic 19" bpc
08 Sansui 27" bpc (ATSC tuner)

HOLY CRAP ! ! ! I mean really HOLY Crap ! ! ! I got about 13 and when I mention I found another the wife says "You don't need another nut," followed by "you don't play with all the ones you have now..." Well I'm gunna use this thread to get more nuts......
Holy crap...............really holy crap.......

I am a small time player.

1949 Motorola 9VT1 8" electrostatic wood tabletop - working, needs cabinet refinished and grille cloth replaced.
1965 Zenith 25MC33 21" Color Roundie - working
1957 8" RCA Victor metal portable - working
1952 RCA Victor 17" wood console with doors - awaiting restoration
1978 GE 12" B&W yellow cabinet - working
1978 Quasar 12" B&W - restored and working but sitting in attic unused
1970's Zenith 12" B&W hybrid - not working, awaiting restoration.
1960's Sony 5-303W metal cabinet 5" portable - currently not working and need to acquire a parts set to fix it.

17? 28? 60? Reading that, it seems to me a little crazy that anyone would have that many sets. So now I'm getting worried: I've always told people that I have around 200 sets. But I actually lost count a long time ago. It might be a few less than that, but it could easily be more. That includes big ones (TRK 120, DuMont RA113, a few CTC roundies, etc.) plus a passle of medium sized ones (630s and 630 wannabees, too many 721s) a gaggle of smaller ones (all those cute little 7" electrostatics), and a whole bunch of teeny tiny ones (Sony 5-303s, Watchman sets and Panasonic 1".) I even scrapped three sets this year that I finally gave up on as past-all-hope-of-ever-being-restorable. That's the first time I ever did that. But then I probably added at least three more to replace them. Hmmm... It may be time for an inventory. Or perhaps an intervention. :)

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My somewhat rough count right now is "only" 95. This is after selling 6 or 8 sets over the last couple months. I'd type up the list if you dared me!

OK, we dare you! LOL

15 total.
40's
RCA 8TS30
Admiral console
50's
2 DuMont consoles
Bendix table set
Zenith porthole combo console
Emerson portable
RCA flip console
Predicta Princess
60's
Panasonic 5"
70's
None
80's
Mitubishi 19"
Sylvania 19"
90's
Symphonic 19"
2000's
JVC 13"
Phillips 42"

Let's see if I can do it; my descriptions aren't real fancy, partly because I don't memorize model numbers nearly as good as some of you guys. This does not include "daily drivers". I thought of several more while I compiled this so I think this is around 98 or so:
Admiral 10" bakelite console, Admiral 12" wood console, Admiral bakelite table model, Admiral color roundie, Admiral 19" bw portable c.66, Admiral 9" bw portable, Admiral 19" bw portable c.69, Airline color combo, Airline 12" color portable, Airline 13" color portable, Andrea console, Crosley 7JP4 set, Delmonico portable, Emerson early 50s table model, Emerson 50s portable, Emerson 60s portable, GE Locomotive, GE 19" portable, 66 GE Portacolor, GE 18v color, GE 19v color, 74 GE Portacolor, GE 'AC' chassis "Portacolor III", Hotpoint 9" portable, JVC 12" bw, Longines Symphonette portable, Magnavox 12" bw,Magnavox 19" bw 70s, Motorola VT-71 restored, Motorola VT-71 rough, 54 Motorola 21" console, Motorola 21" table model, 60 Motorola 21' console, Olympic 19" bw, Panasonic 9" bw, Panasonic flip-up portable, '50 Philco 12" table model, Philco 16" table model, Philco 21" table model, Philco Seventeener in pieces, Philco Seventeener, Philco Predicta, 60s Philco Seventeener, Philco "Woodstock", Philco mod orange 12" bw, Philco mod orange 12" bw larger, Pilot 3" with green crt, Pilot 3" with no crt, RCA 630, RCA 721ts, RCA 16" table model, RCA 53 21" console, RCA 54 21" console, RCA CTC-5, RCA CTC-9, RCA 19" bw portable, RCA CTC-11, RCA CTC-12, RCA CTC-15, RCA CTC-25?, RCA 15" color portable, RCA (whatever came before the CTC-53), RCA CTC-53-clean, RCA CTC-53 dirty, RCA CTC-53 dirtyx2, RCA 15" color portable like a -53, RCA bw tv clock/radio, Sears 21" bw console, Sears 21" table model, Sears 12" color portable, Setchell-Carlson portable, Sony 5" VHF only, Sony 5" works, Sony 5" no vertical, Sony apart in box, Sony Watchman larger, Sony Watchman smaller, Sony Watchman smaller #2, Sylvania Halo Lite, Sylvania Dual Lette, Sylvania color portable, Sylvania mid-70s color table model, Sylvania 12" bw solid state, Transvision console, Westinghouse 19" portable, Zenith porthole, Zenith Flash Matic, Zenith 50s Space Command, Zenith bw portable 57?, Zenith bw portable maybe 58, Zenith 25MC30 color roundie, Zenith 15" color portable, Zenith 19" color, Zenith 19" color#2, Zenith 19" bw, Zenith bw console c.1970, Zenith 23v console #1, Zenith 23v console #2, Zenith "4-tube" 19", Zenith System 3 13"

ok from memory

ctc17
ctc16 x2
ctc25
ctc35
ctc7
zenith roundie
zenith 25mc36
zenith 25cc50 x3
philco roundie
truetone roundie
zenith metal table top x3
sylvania metal table top x5
admiral hybird
zenith 14 series console
motorola bw
motorola egp color
packard bell consoles x8
packard bell black and whites x6
rca bw 621ts or whatever it is
zenith 20x1c38
zenith 20y1c38
sharp bw
zenith blue jeans bw x2
pb consolettes x3
zenith metal table top black and whites x3
philco bw
ge bw x5
admiral metal table top
ge 19inch color x3
sears color tube
several early transistor sets
several random bw consoles
magnavox color
sylvania color x3

WAY TO MANY!
Im pretty sure I get the award for largest tube color collection. I didnt even name half of them here.
I must be close to 100, and whats sick is 5 years ago I had like 3.

According to the Excel file,120, this might be a little off one way or the other but it's very close.

This list doesn't include many of the modern sets, 1 50" Plasma, 1 50" Sony Projector, 1 Sony 13", 1 Sony 9", 1 Sony 20", 1 Sony 15", 1 Sony Watchman (two really but one is dead), a couple of RCA SS Color Portables (like the one House has), an RCA 9" XL-100, 2 RCA 9" Sportables, 1 Silvertone 9" Color set (The Titanic set), a Binoc, a weird Panasonic 5" a 3" Sharp Pedestal set, A White Mod cabinet Toshiba 19", and a boatload of cheap Chinese 5" Jellybeans.
Possibly some others I've forgotten about.

Admiral 19A11 Bakelite 7”
Admiral 19A15 Wood 7”
Admiral 23" B&W Combo From Auction
Admiral 24A12 Bakelite 10” floor model
Admiral Blue & White 10”
Admiral two tone green 10”
Airline 7" 94GSE 3018 Combo
Andrea TVK12 Tabletop 1948
Conrac Fleetwood chassis only
Coronado 10”
Crosley 9-407 12” Tabletop
Curtis Mathes 24” Combo
Emerson 1232 8” portable Blue
Emerson 1232 8” portable Red
Emerson 14” Wood cabinet
Emerson 17” Fabric covered
Emerson 571 10” Tabletop #1
Emerson 571 10” Tabletop #2
Emerson 610 1949 7”
Emerson 610 1949 7” #2 unrestored
Emerson 637
General Electric 12C109 Floor Set
General Electric 14T Yellow
General Electric 17” Pink & White
General Electric 9T002 9” Portable Green & White
General Electric Bakelite 10” Locomotive
General Electric 806 10" Wood
Hallicrafters T-505
Hallicrafters T-506
Hallicrafters T-54
Hoffman 12”
Hoffman 12” w/radio
Hoffman 611 10" W/stand
Hotpoint 14S Pink
Hotpoint 17” Pink & White
Hotpoint 9” Portable Black & White
Hotpoint 9” Portable Red & White
Magnavox 24" From Auction
Motorola 14P5-1 Pink & White portable
Motorola 7VT5 Suitcase Red
Motorola 9T1 Bakelite 8”
Motorola 9T1 Bakelite 8” Painted White
Motorola VT-105 10”
Motorola VT-71 #2 Unrestored
Motorola VT-71 Restored
Motorola VT-71B Blond
Motorola VT-73 Suitcase Tan
Motorola wood 8”
Olympic 10”
Olympic 12”
Philco 14” Brown set
Philco 1953 21” Floor set
Philco 48-1001
Philco 49-1002
Philco 49-1280 Combo
Philco 50-701 7" Bakelite #2
Philco 50-701 7” Bakelite
Philco 50-702 7” Wood
Philco 50-T-1105
Philco 51-PT-1207 Bakelite
Philco Predicta Holiday
Philco Predicta Holiday #2
Philco Pedestal
Philco Seventeener
Pilot tv-37 #1
Pilot TV-37 #2
Raytheon 10DX24 Porthole
Raytheon 7" 7DX21
RCA 14-PD-8055 14” Portable Gold & Blue #1
RCA 14-PD-8055 14” Portable Gold & Blue #2
RCA 14-PD-9030 New CRT
RCA 14-S-7070G 14” Portable Red #1
RCA 14-S-7070G 14” Portable Red #2
RCA 16” Floor Model w/radio
RCA 17-D-8186 Portable with swivel
RCA 17-D-8187 Portable with swivel
RCA 17-PD-8096 17” Portable Blue & White
RCA 21-CD-8865 21” Color CTC-7
RCA 2T51 Bakelite 12” With stand
RCA 621-TS
RCA 630TS
RCA 721-TS
RCA 8TS30
RCA Personal portable Black w/o stand
RCA Personal portable Red w/o stand #1
RCA Personal portable Red w/o stand #2
RCA Personal portable Red w/stand
RCA Personal portable White w/stand #1
RCA Personal portable White w/stand #2
RCA Personal Portable, 8-PT-70xx, Black W/stand #1
RCA Personal Portable, 8-PT-70xx, Black W/stand #3
RCA Personal Portable, 8-PT-70xx, Grey W/stand
RCA T-120 12” Metal tabletop
Sentinel 400-TV 7” Trapezoid Portable
Setchell Carlson Red 1958
Sharp Orange 5"
Silvertone Brown & White 17"
Silvertone Suburbanite
Sonora 1949 12” Tabletop
Sony KV4000 4" Portable
Stewart Warner 9100B Mirror In Lid
Sylvania 7140M 17" Console From Auction
Tele Tone Bakelite 10"
Tele Tone Model # 220 7”
Tele Tone Porthole tv-209
Tele-Tone TV-149 #2 Unrestored
Tele-Tone TV-149 Restored
Tel-O-Master Green Two Tone Japanese 8"
Truetone (Raytheon) 12" 1949?
Truetone 8” Portable
Truetone 10" Porthole w/tilt out tube.
Westinghouse H-14T171 14” Portable Teal & Grey
Westinghouse H-196 10" Tabletop
Westinghouse H-619T12U 12" Tabeltop
Wilcox-Gay 20C84 20" Console
Zenith 10" Porthole "Mayflower"
Zenith 23" Space Command Console
Zenith Flashmatic
Zenith Z1510L Beige Portable with swing handle

Eric

it's official, your a horder :banana: How many are running?

Steve P

Um....Twelve. All restored.

Here are seven...:smoke:

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...Resto005-2.jpg

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Well , , I guess im the forum's minimalist , , , , Ive got one , , yeppers , , just one , antique TV ...... Its a 1950s olympic that lives in the model airplane room , and before the end of broadcast TV it used to be a daily runner for something to listen to while I worked on my RC planes ......

Now , antique radios are another story all together ...... they occupy just about my entire house !!!! :D

Did somebody say R/C Airplanes...?

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...ept2011021.jpg

Hi M3-SRT8 ,

Yea , its funny how many of us Massachusetts guys are into the same hobbys . For me , Its been everything from Lionel trains , RC planes , Antique cars , and just about anything built with Vaccum tube technology ... My age no longer allows the restoration of old cars anymore , and thats one reason I really like the RC planes and smallish tube radios , theyre much easier for this old retiree to keep running ..

Nice Plane , btw :thmbsp:

I'll leave you with a horrible photo of the only Straight 8 I've ever owned . It was a 53 Buick special with only 45000 miles on it when I owned it (almost 30 years ago) ..... It was the proverbial "little old lady's car that only went to church on sundays" , and was in way better shape than the photo portrays (that rust on the front bumper was the ONLY rust anywhere on the car !!! )

:no: Hey !!! What gives here ???? I didnt link the words "Lionel Trains" or "front bumper" to ebay , , why is it showing up on my post like that ????

I haven't counted in decades, but probably a total of 200 or so. This includes my collection of pocket TVs (a few dozen), and my collection of small CRT Sony color sets (about 40), which all together take up the space of one console. My high number was over 400 sets, and that was in 1989. It was out-of-control, and I wound up paying more for rented storage than the collection would ever be worth, so I sold off most of it. I kept a few sets with personal value to me, and since then, my "generation II" collection has built up to about as big as I want to allow it. I have to explain to my wife, how there is an apartment in a complex we have, which stands incompleted and without income, is full of old TVs. And there are numerous large TVs in every room of the house. And a motorcycle in the livingroom.

Charles

Admiral 19A11
DuMont RA103 "Chatham"
Halicrafters T-67
Majestic 1600
Motorola VT71
RCA 621TS
RCA 630TS
RCA 730TV1 (my favorite)
Teletone TV149

I only started this crazy thing in April of this year when I bought the Majestic. Seven months later I have nine antique televisions and I hunger for more.

It's a disease that has no cure. Started with 1 last year and now have 15 vintage sets.

yah I was wondering what it was also that turns words into links to nonsensical places. ebay sony panasonic
wow it did it to me too..... nobody better type dirty words.... no tellin where they git linked to.

Sadly, 0.
Anyone here want to help me out? :)

Got a vintage tube radio. (and see the odd one pop up on listings services) but no old TVs... yet I really want to own/restore one - even a small portable, as long as it's all-tube.
Problem for me is location, more or less - none pop up, and shipping would be very cost prohibitive.

well try this on for size

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...18#post6042839

That Micro Bandit can honk...!

I'm only counting restored and/or worked as is upon scoring. And away we go....

Black and white
RCA Victor 8TS30 (2011 convention score)
Magnavox 16" round (2010 convention score)
Stewart-Warner 12" round (1990 service call score)
Zenith 23H22 Tabletop (2009 convention score)
RCA 17" tabletop (2009 convention score)
Zenith 23H22 console (2005 convention score)
Hallicrafters 16" console (2003 antique store score)
Philco 12" tabletop (2002 antique mall score)
Zenith 21" tabletop (1990 curb score)
GE 9" portable (2006 antique mall score)
Zenith 17" Bugeye (2004 convention score)
Admiral 10" portable (2005 convention score)
Admiral 17" portable (antique mall score)
GE 14" tabletop (customer backed out score)
Andrea 16" console (2003 convention score)
RCA Victor 14" portable (2003 convention score)
Sylvania 17" portable (2003 antique mall score)
Admiral 19" portable (2007 convention score)

Color sets
RCA Victor CTC-9 (Newsgroup ad posted by our good freind Steve McVoy in 2005)
RCA Victor CTC-16 (1991 curb score)
Zenith 25MC32 (given by friend in about 1990)
Zenith 25NC32 (Cleveland score)
Silvertone round combo (1998 curb score)
Sylvania D-01 (1988 curb score)
Zenith rectangular combo (2004 score based on a tip from the ETF.)
Zenith 12A12C52 console (another ETF tip)
Admiral G33 series (2010 convention score)
Admiral 23" rectangular (2006 curb find)
RCA 17" portable (80's score)

I've lost count of unrestored sets. Besides, I think I got all the restored ones.

Hi to everyone,

I collect since the mid 70s.
Including about 10 parts-sets they are about 200 vintage TVs from 24 countries of the world (from Finland over Spain to Australia), made by more than 135 different companies.:banana:
Don`t ask me for space-trouble, I have radios and jukeboxes, too.:tears::tears:
Anybody out there who can beat the number of countries and companies?:finger:

Best regards,

The TV-collector :stupid: