Vintage TV collectors - watch this go through the roof!!

[seamusuk]

You can just imagine Mrs Bucket wanting this!!!!

Seamus

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....83030&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_fvi=1&_rdc=1

 

[foraloysius]

Oh, that is definitely a must have for our Hyacinth!

Interesting that the names on the channels were put on the TV. On the continent we only had numbers so that they could be sold in several countries.

My favourite vintage TV is this Philips color TV. It's from around 1971, our neighbours had this model in a darker wood.

 

[112561]

Does that bucket woman even own a television?

Mrs. Bucket would be torn, probably with wanting the latest colour model for her lounge, or having something (even with the royal pedigree) that "old" on display for all her friends to see. That 1973 ITT is light years better than our best 1973 offerings. She would probably keep it at the foot of her bed, lovingly covered with one of her retired tablecloths.

 

[douglasdc6]

For a minute there I was getting excited

I thought you might be refering to a prewar set such as an RCA TT-5 or TRK-5 At least I have a 630-T

 

[112561]

I love the look of European TV sets from the '50s and ne

They have such finely finished cabinets and attention to detail. Douglasdc6, could you sneak a picture of your set to this thread?

 

[jasonl]

Watch some Tomorrow People

That would be the perfect "Tele" to watch some vintage British shows on.

 

[danemodsandy]

Alan!

"I love the look of European TV sets from the '50s and newer"

Alan - It took me forever to figure out it was you - your username isn't the same as it is over on Vacuumland. Good to be back in touch. Email me off-list when you get time.

I agree about European sets of this era - they were much better styled than ours here in America. We had lots of Ye Olde Fayke Woode Graine, and our tube masks were clunky. The sheer, spare simplicity of European sets was a much higher standard of design.

 

[112561]

Sandy!!!

I missed "talking" to you over yonder, I had to come back here, I missed the folks I ran into here, as well as you, of course. I decided on a new identity, for the new year. Feast your danemodeyes on this baby--the one on the far right. I bought the Drexel Projection buffet at Goodwill for $49.99!

After manufacturers abandoned hardwoods for particleboard and woodgrained Contac paper, things did go to heck in a handbasket. I do have a soft spot for my '87 Zenith System 3 19" color set, with the fayke woode grayne though.

 

[petek]

What a beautiful looking set as well as the Philips. The Euro/UK tv's were so stylishly modern in comparison. While the US ones tried I don't think they ever quite got "modern" quite right back then, always had to ruin it somehow with some fussy doo-dad or add on LOL

Now correct me if I'm wrong folks.. include a pic

 

[danemodsandy]

Alan:

Very neat set! Would that any TV manufacturer thought enough of its customers today to hook up with Drexel. I swear there's a huge untapped market for consoles still out there, if only someone would make really nice furniture-quality ones again. With today's flat-screen technology, they could be far less bulky and obtrusive than the old ones were.

 

[112561]

General Electric trimmed the depth of their console television in the late '50s early '60s. The top one in this picture was around here for a while, and some moron gutted it!

 

[danemodsandy]

Alan:

That Danish console has always been a favourite of mine, though I've only ever seen them in adverts, not in real life. Lucky you to have one at all, even gutted.

Check your mail.

 

[112561]

I'm sorry, I don't have that console at all in any form. There was one in Fort Pierce that got gutted. If I ever see anything again that age and it's complete, it'll be added to the collection, working or not.

 

[petek]

and look at that nasty Colonial Lo-boy with those awful awful awful spindly legs.. dreadful squared.

 

[douglasdc6]

112561 Give me a minute & I`ll start posting some pictures

I love vintage tv`s - the ones I collect are mostly 1940`s

 

[112561]

Thanks douglasdc6

I like all of the tv sets myself, I have quite a few of the little '70s and '80s black and white ones, some with radios.

That unfortunate spindly Colonial GE would have done our Colonial living room a treat. It would have beaten our '52 Philco on the swivel table by a mile. Our next set in '64 was another Philco, rather deluxe, with a two speaker Danish cabinet.

 

[douglasdc6]

Here are a few

RCA 630T this one was made in 1946 .

Pardon the mess -I havent had the time to properly display these.

 

[douglasdc6]

General Electric 1947

10 inch screen

 

[douglasdc6]

2 Admiral 10 inch screen tv sets circa 1947 or 48

These sets make great end tables ; )

 

[douglasdc6]

1948 Truetone 7 inch screen

This set was manufactured under different names .

 

[douglasdc6]

1947 Crosley spectator 10 inch screen

Rosewood around screen area Crosley used RCA`s famous 630T
Chasis.

Again pardon the mess.

 

[douglasdc6]

RCA TT5 5 inch screen 1939

prewar table top tv set - This one requires a seperate Radio for sound.

OK thats it.

 

[112561]

Hey, those are great!

Thanks, I love those. Especially the 1947 GE. Does it have a phonograph too?

 

[sudsmaster]

Where are the periwinkles?

 

[douglasdc6]

1947 G-E

Yes , It has a phonograph

 

[danemodsandy]

Suds:

Hyacinth's "Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles" is one of the show's snobbiest, most subtle jokes.

The china used on the show is called "Braganza," and properly speaking, it's not actually Royal Doulton at all - it's from Colclough China, a subsidiary of Royal Doulton. Also, as such things go, it's not a particularly expensive pattern, so Hyacinth's veneration of her china is based on a little exaggeration, which of course is how she is about most things.

Here's a photo of Colclough's "Braganza."

 

[danemodsandy]

More Braganza:

The cup and saucer - so perfect for tossing back-and-forth with fumble-fingered Elizabeth:

 

[112561]

That's pretty

I have a set of Mikasa Oakmont, from the late '50s.

That's a cool GE,78 rpm I guess.

Next one of these I find, I'm getting.

 

[douglasdc6]

this is getting good

We had a magnavox console close to what is above - I`ll always remember after turning the set off watching that little dot that would remain on the screen for about a minute - My parents loved magnavox.

I think ours was a 1960 or 61 model do you by chance have a few more ads on the 1960 & 61 models like the above ?

I have seen a few of these on ebay over the years mostly in california.

If I see the one we had I`ll snatch it up quick.

Thanks for posting.

 

[112561]

Hi Douglas

Magnavox is my madness, ever since seeing my aunt's console in summer of 1969. I swiped these images off TV History, some off a photo site, so I don't claim ownership. I just want to spread the goodness.