It looks like Zenith was really trying to give the illusion of a rectangular tube.

I'd guess they were all correct when new, (I have one that matches too) but 40-years worth of CRT changes have "undone" all that.

Those replacement crts never have that green look, it seems.

This is that kinda set that you can miss. With the doors closed it doesn't scream "TV". I can usually spot them when they are incognito but I think I would have had to seen this one from behind.

2005 wasn't the best year of my life (though not the hardest either, just mediocre) but it was a great year for my collection, with additions ranging from my first 630ts to a ton of hybrids. I think this is going to be a good year.

Well, thats just wrong!(that I ain't been able to find nuttin' that fine!) I been wantin a chinese cab. something ever since I saw a manchu Dumont in Jersey some years ago. I shoulda bought that but at the time if it won't round color it won't coming home. A roundie Zenith chinese is just toooo cool. And a space command at that. Damn!

Great find, Doug. :thmbsp: Until I saw yours, I had never seen a Zenith roundie in such a beautiful cabinet. The last sets I had seen in the Chinese style cabinets were 1949-'50ish Stromberg-Carlsons (my late aunt had one in a white console cabinet with doors over the CRT; the Chinese artwork was on the large rectangular door pulls).

I will be looking forward to seeing a picture of your set in operation. If it makes a decent picture even with the convergence yoke broken in pieces, it will probably have a superb picture once the convergence issues are corrected. As I have said here before, those older Zeniths were and still are great TVs, much better than the "Zenith" branded LG sets coming off the lines from Korea. I have an LG cell phone, but would not touch an LG television with a ten-foot antenna mast, let alone own one.


Keep us posted.

Kind regards,