Turquoise 1963? Kitchen Set

[retromaytag]

Hi Everyone, just a general question. There's a turquoise kitchen set for sale locally, they don't know the exact age but think it was probably installed shortly after the house was built in 1963. They are GE's, and consists of a

Countertop stove top with 4 electric coil burners
Wall oven
Vent hood
Dishwasher
Double basin sink

No fridge. ):

Does anyone know what model they would be, what they look like, or roughly what they would be worth, it's a make offer deal.

Cheers!

 

[retromaytag]

Well the seller sent me some pics so I thought I'd better post up!

Anybody know anything about these, the age, value, what a good offer on them would be, etc?

Cheers!
Matthew

 

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Stovetop

 

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Dishwasher?

 

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Sink

 

[appnut]

Very nice looking. The vent-a-hood has the cooktop burner controls as an integral part of it. No dishwasher picture? Wonder if it's part of the set, most likely BOL version of today's POD.

 

[danemodsandy]

Not Absolutely Certain, But...

...That oven looks to be somewhere in the 1964-65 time frame. GE changed the oven door handle and the clock face in '66, and this is earlier than that. Also, having the cooktop pushbuttons integrated into the vent hood was an upper-series feature. GE also had cooktops with the pushbuttons on the cooktop itself, as a lower-series offering. The upper-series cooktop was not a good choice for an average remodel, because you had to run power underneath the counter and up through the wall to the vent hood; you couldn't just drop it in and connect the power. The lower-series units permitted you to do that.

So, my educated guess is: 64-65 or so, TOL cooktop. But not TOL on the oven, because it's not P*7 self-cleaning, which was available from '63 on. More MOL on the oven, like upper MOL, because it's definitely a nice unit.

 

[danemodsandy]

P.S.:

What I meant about running power through the wall for the TOL cooktop was that you were running 220, in a whacking huge shielded cable. It meant opening up the wall big-time or including the installation in new construction.

 

[retromaytag]

Would a picture inside the oven help any?

Supposedly the oven works, they are still using it. I don't know about the rest. They are remodeling the kitchen though, so out with the old and in with the new.

I have no clue what all this is worth. A couple hundred? A thousand?

I don't really have any use for it right now, but I think it would be neat for in the future when I build a new house, to retro the kitchen out.

 

[retromaytag]

So the power runs to the main stove part, then from the stove through the wall to the hood/controls up above? Interesting. Not that big of a deal really though. (for me anyhow) I was more thinking about how to uninstall it without destroying their house.

They were thinking the appliances were installed when the house was built, and they thought the house was built in 63, but perhaps they are a bit off in their age.

 

[danemodsandy]

Actually, No...

If the house was built in '63, that's actually consistent with those items being '64 models, because back then, appliance model introductions were done in the Fall, same as cars. '64 models would have been available from September of '63 on. '65 is a little late for Turquoise in new construction; it was going out of fashion, and while a lot of people still liked it, a builder would have been taking a chance putting it into a new spec house. Coppertone would have been the fashionable choice by '65, likely to attract prospective buyers.

I have no clue on value, sorry.

 

[tolivac]

A neighbor sold one of those GE cooktops and vent hood at his yard sale--for only 10 bucks.It was almond in color.Same hood with the remote burner controls and umbilical cable to connect to the cooktop.The seller had no oven or dishwasher-just the stove.A customer before me bought it and promply loaded it into her truck.Too bad there wasn't another.The one sold wasn't in as good a shape as the one pictured here.The seller told the buyer "it worked when it was taken out".

 

[turquoisedude]

If you can get any further info about the dishwasher, I am looking for one of the pull-out models that GE had in the early 60's! Where exactly are they located??

 

[countryford]

I picked up an older wall oven in cooktop stove probably from the late 50's but still a G.E. The cooktop had the controls right on the unit itself. I picked them up at a second hand store for $7. for the two units. They looked like they had never been used.

 

[cadman]

All depends on condition of course, a but a few hundred bucks wouldn't be out of line for the oven, cooktop, hood and dishwasher as a package. Typically they show up with the wall mount fridge and that's where some sellers really start to head north. If they think you're trying to low-ball 'em you can point out that the oven and cooktop are still pretty darn common, parts are still available and many continue to be used to this day so they're not exactly scarce. In the midwest, turquoise seems to be the most common GE kitchen color, followed by pink. Cory

 

[goatfarmer]

Tell them to set the price. I refuse to price someone else's goods for them.

 

[retromaytag]

She said she's hoping for $1000. A bit rich for my blood. And a bit optimistic me thinks. (; But, ya never know and it never hurts to ask.

They are on the Tulsa OK Craigslist, I think she may have misspelled Turquoise as Turqoise, try it the other way if it doesn't show up.

I just discovered AGA ovens, I think I may go with one of those instead. I'm off on another rabbit trail, have at these.