Hallicrafters Roundie
 

Hi,
I am new to Videokarma, There is no dollars and sense thread here to ask in...

My aunt and uncle have a '57? Hallicrafters Black and white Roundie in their attic they may want to get rid of, is it worth anything? It hasn't been plugged in for 40-some years. I am familiar with tube tech, and I know all about bad caps and such.
If there is interest, and I'm sure what they want to do with it. I will list it in the classifieds I didn't see that this was a "color TV" thread, Please move if needed.

It's in Middletown NY 10940

It's not a '57 model. More like a '48 to '51 model. The '52 Halli's came with a 21AP4 or smaller size glass rectangular CRT. :scratch2:

You're sure it's B&W right?
A 1950's Color Hallicrafter would attract a lot of interest!

I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure it's B&W. I'll get more info next week.

You know we get a lot of new people. Who finds an old TV stuck somewhere the house, and wondering if it is worth a lot of money. You know they never have anymore info than this. Lol which I always beleave anything is worth what someone willing to pay.

I don't think it is worth alot of money,but if it is worthless.I am not going to save it from the crusher.I just want to make sure it is worth the effort to save.

Any 40's round tube set is worth saving if it's in decent condition, Hallicrafters is also more scarce than and RCA or Philco.

Not going to be worth tons of money but maybe $100 or possibly more depending on model and condition, large combo units usually less.

I mentioned color because a Hallicrafters round tube color set is a rare animal indeed and would be worth a fairly large chunk of change.

Fascinating resto of one of 'em here..
http://www.antiquetvguy.com/WebPages...-21CK801M.html

I did not mean anything bad. Its good to save any old electronics. Pull it out and take some pictures of it maybe someone on here might want it or need the parts. Just don't let them make a stinking fish tank or book case out of it.

We live in an age where a pic can be taken with almost any device.. Maybe you should take pics of it and post them so people don't have to play a guessing game...

I do know what you mean. There is way too much over-priced common 40s-50s TV and radio posted on Philly (much more than other local) craigslist. They act like you're trying to steal it from them when you offer a reasonable price.

I knew Hallicrafters made amateur communications gear (I had a Hallicrafters SX101A receiver in my first amateur radio station), as well as small table radios, but this is the first Hallicrafters color TV I've seen. Hallicrafters also made a 7" b&w TV with push-button tuning (it may have had channel 1) in the late '40s. It was housed in the same style cabinet as their amateur radio gear.

Hallicrafters produced TV receivers well into the '50's. Here is their 1951 line up.

-Steve D.

Hallicrafters DID make a mere handful of color sets, but I don't know if they were 15" or 21s.. They threw in the towel on TVs sometime around 1955 or '56. Seems like I remember reading that they were all given/rented to their larger distributors, none offered to the general public.

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I don't know of 15" sets (Maybe they existed, and I never heard of them, maybe they did not exist) but Hali DID offer a rebadged CTC-4 in a cabinet different from the RCAs....THOSE were 21" and used the 21AXP22. Bob Galanter brought a VERY rotten one back from the dead....He practically had to make it a new cabinet....Only 2 of those Hali CTC-4s still exist so finding another one would be a very rare and valuable find indeed.

Newspaper article from Dec. 23, 1957.

-Steve D.

I think a recession was happening around then.

It looks like some of their employees received a real nice Christmas gift, a pink slip.
I know, they made sets for Sears and Sylvania. There was some kind of connection with Crosley, as well. Crosley quit TV's and radios, around the same time. :scratch2:

Ouch! Bad memories. When I was about 12, our next door neighbor, a widower living alone, passed away. Several months later, an estate sale was held. One of the items for sale was a 1951 Hallicrafters TV (it looked like the upright without doors in your brochure), and priced at $10.
My mother flat out refused to let me buy the set, even though I really, really wanted it.
Perhaps why, once out of the parents' house, I started accumulating sets, LOL

Yes, recession was ongoing when Hallicrafters discontinued TV set manufacturing and Crosley also ceased manufacturing. 1956-1959 were tough economic times.

That recession period really hit color tv sales hard. RCA Victor was the last man standing and the sole manufacturer & promoter of a full line of color receivers for a couple of years. Many dealers still having left over stocks of RCA & other brands of color tv's for sale at fire sale prices. RCA owned NBC continuing, for obvious reasons, their some what limited color programming. CBS pretty much cutting color shows back to almost but not quite zero. ABC yet to introduce any color telecasts during this period. The public saw no reason to invest hard to come by big bucks in tinted tv.

-Steve D.

My father went back to college, as a graduate student, to learn computer work around then. Something almost noone in the workforce knew anything about, back then. It worked, he got a decent job after he completed the degree, a job that lasted 20 years. Better than just being a cost accountant.

Hallicrafters produced a couple of interesting 1948 sets. Their model 505 (http://antiqueradio.org/halli505.htm) had push-button tuning:

http://antiqueradio.org/art/halli50519.jpg

The same chassis was offered in a metal cabinet that resembled a Hallicrafters SX-42 boatanchor (model T-54) and in a leatherette cabinet with a hinged cover (model 514).

The 1948 model T-67 was a better quality set (http://antiqueradio.org/hallit-67.htm):

http://antiqueradio.org/art/Hallicra...Television.jpg

Their 1950s sets were uniformly blah. I suspect they had low sales; I have never seen one in the flesh.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

I finally went to my aunt's house and got a look at the Hallicrafters TV
it is certainly B&W, it is a Stratarama The Ink for the model # is very faded,
I could only make out a few digits 21K4... I don't think is is worth bothering with.

We had a bunch of Halli TVs when I was a kid. My uncle put himself through college fixing TVs in Gram & Gramps basement & he'd refurb & sell sets that folks "abandoned". He was a big Halli fan (ham operator...natch) and felt they were among the best-built TVs. He'd fix us up with 21" table models...my Mom called them "beer joint TVs" since that was the type you'd usually see mounted up in the corner at the bar.

Yeah, there was a pretty severe recession, late 1957. Ford got caught, too-That was when they brought out the Edsel. Likely NOTHING would have mattered w/it, though. They also introduced an ENTIRELY new Lincoln that was the biggest Unibody car made up til that point. Had the biggest V-8, 430 cubic inches, as well. They SHOULD have waited a year or 2, the Lincoln, especially, had LOTS of "Teething Troubles", NOT something you want for yr TOTL product. The T-Bird, also, was totally new, it & the Lincoln were a lot alike under the skin. Both were made in a brand-new plant in Wixom, Michigan. The Lincoln, in 1958, had rather aggressive, BIZARRE styling that accentuated its tremendous size. Ford product planners produced a car that "out-Cadillaced Cadillac" in every way, but it was STILL a crashing LOSER in the marketplace. Sorry if I go off on tangents, but I find the social history of the late Fifties EXTREMELY interesting. And I HAVE studied quite a bit about the Automotive industry of the times...