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Originally Posted by bandersen
I've been sorting through some knobs and came across this odd looking one with channel #1. Any ideas ?
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Bob,
Next time you are in the Early Television Museum, you might look at their 1949 Sparton:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/sparton_4951.html
Click on the image to enlarge, then click again and it will expand more. I believe that is your knob.
The FCC dropped channel 1 in 1948, but several sets still had the obsolete channel in 1949.
This could simply be an early production 1949 set.
I think that this knob rotated, but since it had to be aligned to the tuner shaft and the window, it was held in place with a spring clamp outside the plastic.