Yoke Question

[jr_tech]

Years ago, I obtained an old Emerson projection set from a collector that was about to junk it because the yoke was "burned up". I hauled the thing home, inspected the charred turns on the yoke, and stashed it away in a dark corner of my garage.

Today, I inspected the Norelco "Protelgram" projector again. The outer coil of the yoke for sure has some bare wire and charred looking windings, the focus coil appears to be just fine...Picture 1

But wait a second! ... that is an axial coil, not what one would expect for a deflection yoke. I removed the coil and found some fairly "normal" looking deflection windings... Picture 2

So what is the outer coil? it is connected ONLY with one wire to ground... is it just a shield? Even stranger, BOTH ends of the coil appear to be connected to the ground lug, so it would appear that it is a SHORTED, GROUNDED coil ! ...Picture 3

Anybody know what the purpose of this coil would be... some sort of "magnetic shunt" or what?

jr