Help Identifying this set?

[cbenham]

This looks like an early 17 inch metal tube RCA set #320316118680 on eBay
but I can't find anything that looks like it in Sams. Anybody know for certain
what model it is?
Thanks for any help.
Cliff

[Tubejunke]

Interesting, the set looks like any other RCA of the period with the exeption of having a rectangular c.r.t. I'm not sure what year RCA started phasing out the round tubes. Just guessing I would say 1952 or so....

[bgadow]

I had a 15" version of this which I sold a few years back, along with a nearly identical Philco. I know the Philco was a '54, and about the end of the line for those. Pretty common about 52-53.

[Old1625]

IIRC RCA had round-to-rectangular conversion kits available for the older sets. Somewhere I have literature on this. The set pictured could be an earlier one converted thus.