Western Visionette Restoration

[Steve McVoy]

John, here is my thinking.

This set didn't appear in any sales literature that I'm aware of. Western may have bought some console cabinets and installed Visionette assemblies (they were available as kits) for demonstration purposes, perhaps with the idea that they might sell a console model. I doubt if yours predates the Visionette since it uses the exact same mechanism. So, your set might be a Western prototype.

Another possibility is that a cabinet company in Chicago made that cabinet and was selling it to the public for installation of a Visionette assembly.