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A pretty set indeed.
Believe it or not, I would have loved to get one of these in the mid-1970's, when I was quite young.
The only set in the house with UHF was the RCA color (CTC38/GL759WK) in the living room - my parents had first dibs on what to watch, then my oldest brother, then my older sister, than my other brother. It virtually never filtered down to me. Back then, most of the programs I wanted to watch were on the UHF channels. I had priced 22" B&W sets (about $200) and really wanted us to get one, Mom always said we did not have enough money (she really meant she did not want me to watch TV if she was not watching me!).
Adam, this 22" is actually the same size as the 23" B&Ws (with integral cover glass, that took the B&W console from about 1962 until its demise). The FTC cracked down on "inflated" picture sizes, and mandated "viewable" picture sizes, hence 23**P4 tubes became 22V**P4 (25*P22 went to 23v**P22 and 20*P4 to 19V**P4).
There were larger B&W consoles in the earlier days of TV. Early TV sets were criticized for being small, and a "race" toward larger and larger CRTs began, culminating with 30" B&W roundies like the DuMont Royal Sovereign. A new line of 90° "pregnant rectangle" tubes in the early-mid 1950's included related tubes in 17", 21", 24" and 27" sizes, and some 27" sets did hit the market on the 50's, but they were bulky and expensive. While 24" models survived, it was really the 21" TV that would rule for nearly a decade (even a 24" model tended to cost nearly twice as much as a 21).
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