[Jeffhs]

I never saw a TV like this either, until now.

At first I thought this was a console that had been assembled entirely upside down, but when I zoomed in on the controls and such I saw they were all in their proper places, the Zenith name and crest were rightside-up and readable, and everything else seemed normal -- except the speaker was at the top of the cabinet, rather than most other console TVs that have the speaker either in the base or on one side of same. Some RCA Victor console TVs of the '50s had one side-firing speaker mounted at the top right-hand corner of the right side of the cabinet; my folks' first TV, an RCA Victor 1954 21" console, had the speaker mounted this way. The space at the base normally occupied by the speaker in their set was replaced by wood panels with two brass bars, perhaps to simulate door pulls. That cabinet was in our basement literally for years after the TV quit and had been replaced with a 1955 Crosley Super "V" 21" console. The latter had a rather large speaker mounted in the base of the cabinet, below the CRT; IIRC, that set sounded great. In 1965 the Crosley was replaced by as Silvertone all-channel 17" portable in which the speaker was mounted, IIRC, directly below the tuner. Typical portable.