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Originally Posted by W.B.
The other hint it's not from '56: The UHF 14-83 tuning. All-channel sets were only mandated by the FCC in 1964.
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Actually, this is in "error in finding the error". True, UHF wasn't compulsory until 1964, but all-channel sets did exist from 1952 onwards. They weren't very common, unless you were in an all-UHF market, like Fort Wayne, Peoria, Fresno or Yakima (note that these are fairly small markets). In most areas, if you wanted an all-channel set to watch the lone independent or NET station, you had to buy your TV sight-unseen, from a catalog, which many people were not willing to do.
Yes, everything else about the set clearly screams mid-1960's (no set in my 1963 or 1969 SR catalogs looks just like it, it's between these years), and the auction would have ended with no bids if the last four zeros had been taken out of the minimum.
One other thought, Warwick was almost as greedy as this auctioneer when it a built this set with a
huge speaker grille concealing a teeny-weeny speaker!