What make/model TV set is this?

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

The two earlier sets pictured are Admiral brand (both B&W). The top one I've seen a few admirals with that control panel, the bottom one the 'pencil box' door seems to have the right number of letters (and enough look to be the right letters) to spell Admiral...Zeniths had a similar layout back then, but so did several other brands.

I'm surprised to see the pencil box door missing so early in the life of the earlier (1950) Admiral... as we find them today, the door is usually gone, but apparently the doors were taken off or broke off when the sets were fairly new.

Intact one from tv history site:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1950-Admiral-26X56A-16in.jpg

21 (24?) inch admiral, similar to second set pictured:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1953-Admiral-228DX16.JPG

21 inch table model:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1954-Admiral-T2236Z.JPG

jr

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

I'm surprised to see the pencil box door missing so early in the life of the earlier (1950) Admiral... as we find them today, the door is usually gone, but apparently the doors were taken off or broke off when the sets were fairly new.

Take it from someone who has been alive long enough to remember when such sets were in regular use ;

Even when only a few years old TVs of that time weren't anything close to today's "set it and forget it" affair , and the controls had to be regularly tweaked as the set ran to keep things on track . The hidden controls thing may have looked all futuristic and all , but weren't very practical and most folks quickly tired of opening and closing that damned little door every time the picture needed to be made to stop rolling (the #1 drift adjustment) or to adjust brightness & contrast as it seemed each different TV show was filmed in different enough of locations to require setting the picture right when changing channels .

[TonyNYC]

So any verdict on what the set in my 62 home movies was? I am CERTAIN the first video is May 1962 because it depicts my mom's communion party and I have her communion record and the film was shot on 5/19/1962. So the TV was produced before May 62. The question is the make/model and I am curious because I wanna know how new it was/how much it might've cost.

Also yes my family is Italian but never any plastic on the furniture. I love my grandparent's mid century modern home decor you can see in the video...Very classy IMO.