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Originally Posted by Arkay
Of interest to me is this line in the description: "it is one of the old tv's with a picture tube."
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I knew that day was coming. It makes old TV hunting difficult because now almost anything is considered old. I have followed up on some local ads that could have been something special ("Very old RCA 21" color TV, solid wood cabinet") and it is invariably from the eighties. Trouble is that the average person has no concept of the difference between a bad crt 90s Zenith and a round color Zenith from 1963. You can describe things to them on the phone like, does it have knobs? Tubes? Rounded screen? But you can't rely on any of those descriptions they give you. You have to get in your car and drive over to their place, go down in the basement and see for yourself that the "round screen antique" they have is actually a 1985 Curtis Mathes.
As for the Magnavox here, I would have guessed late seventies. 25V crt with knobs. Going along with Charles though, I guess this could have been one of their early 25V sets. Everyone seemed to make a few hybrids that way. Magnavox cabinet design did not seem to change very fast. I have seen some of their sets from the mid-80s which at first glanced looked late 60s. The crt bezel always gives it away as being a Magnavox; that unique design was carried through for a long period of time.