Anyone Know Anything About This Set???
 

I am sure some of you online auction lurkers have seen this listing, but I think it is a facinating set.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301129592809...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Schlumberger was the company that owned Heathkit when I was a lad building shortwave and ham radio kits in the 60's, but I had no idea they ever made TVs. The build quality looks excellent (from the limited photos in the listing). I think his price is pie-in-the-sky cause how many actually know anything about this company's tv offerings in the 50's??
Anyone shed some knowledge here?

If the set does not sell, and he re-lists for a bit better price, I would be tempted, as I have a friend in CT who could pick it up for me til I could retrieve it from him.:yes:

Schlumberger (pronounced approximately Shloom-ber-shzay,) an international oil-field service company, owned Heathkit for a time in the sixties, and of course Heath later sold color TV kits which I think were CTC clones, and which have no connection to the set pictured. The chassis of the set pictured is built like a brick-you-know-what, doesn't resemble the build of any US set I've seen, and with that name, must be French. I cannot find any reference to a French company of that same name making TV's, but there must have been. Could it have been yet another venture back then of the oilfield folks?

Is there a possibility it's a Stromberg Carlson? The chassis looks identical to a TC-10.

It's a Stromberg-Carlson and has been on the bay for maybe six months or better at about the same price. It's a nice looking and unique set, but no where near worth almost three C's. Some people will re-list stuff over and over again at a high price and never come down.

Definitely Stromberg Carlson.

That "roll bar" is a giveaway. My S-C 440M console radio had a similar one. What a nice touch for the serviceman.

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seems strange to have doors on a tabletop set, maybe it originally had legs?

I think it either had legs or a separate base? I do see some wood runners on the bottom though so maybe it was designed as a tabletop also.

I rebuilt the 10" "Manhattan" version of this chassis and it is a real PITA to work on, this is because it is so deep it's hard to get to some of the parts, i got shocked more working on it than any other model for the same reason! :yes:

The re-branding makes sense now....so If I was really wanting a set like that, I'd look for a SC! Yes, some sellers will just keep an outrageous price for months waiting for an interested, but un-informed buyer with more $ than sense......yeah, I do love that "roll bar"....satisfies a latent automotive fetish in the subconsious!:smoke:

It's not re-branded. The seller just has the wrong name listed. If you look at the picture of the front you can make out Stromberg-Carlson. I'm not sure where they got the Schlumberger from.

These two forensic and motion blur removal corrections to the eBay shots may make it a little easier to read the Stromberg Carlson name. Far from perfect, but better.

Sure looks like this model in the SAMS . . .

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sams-PhotoFac...item53e9d06f2e

I just unloaded a set similar to that...for free
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps54053f3b.jpg

Stromberg got a lot of milage out of that chassis. On my TS-125 the chassis sides unscrew, which really helps when recapping these deep chassis.

http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/q...g?t=1395686391

Sheesh! You guys back East give away sets we'd feel lucky to even buy out here in
Fly-over land! :tears:

Bonanza,

Fly low over CO and check these;

http://denver.craigslist.org/zip/4384330258.html
http://denver.craigslist.org/ele/4379237574.html
http://denver.craigslist.org/for/4379291630.html
http://denver.craigslist.org/fud/4379501387.html
http://denver.craigslist.org/atq/4383953757.html

They are all still listed today. And the GE is good looking.

I'd grab that black GE in a heartbeat if it was close to me.

If I was home, I might be tempted to make the 6 hour round trip drive up to Denver for the GE...nah....but that Zenith and the Mag....now there's a couple of smoking deals if I ever saw 'em! I mean come on, both for less than a grand!

Seriously, no dis intended by my previous comment about giving away sets back East. I am truly envious of the numbers of vintage equipment that seem to be easy to find for you guys. Shoot, I'm 65, lived in Colo most of my life, and I've never even seen a Dumont! ......just sayin', you know!

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot....I called the seller of the "Schlumberger" out on his listing title, and he sends me back a "gee, thanks for the heads-up", and changed the listing! Doesn't sound quite so rare and exotic anymore as a Stromberg!

I just made a 14 hour round trip this past weekend to go get my DuMont and Admiral Tele-bar. If you want it bad enough, you do what you have to! :D

Plus I had to rent a cargo van. No way THOSE two sets were fitting in my Ford Explorer. :no:

For a Dumont, I'd be all in..........!:yes:

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