1952 GE TV on CL near Rochester, NY
 

No affiliation. No price - listed as a '52, but looks slightly newer to me. Has a remote.

http://rochester.craigslist.org/atq/2658483984.html

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1959 or 1960. The 110 degree CRT gives it away (among other style cues), look at the depth of the cabinet...or rather the lack thereof.

Yup. I worked on many of those puppies as metal cabinet table models. Don't remember seeing one in a floor-standing cabinet before.

That does look like a portable TV chassis GE made into a shallow console. Actually make sense, sometimes the marketing types do something that makes sense. "Not a lot of room in your place, or you don't want a space hog, but you still want a console TV set, get this one."

They were a little bigger than a standard portable. More like a table-model "luggable". Some had handhold slots in the sides rather than a top handle.

One of the GE Designer Series from 1959/60, I have a Tabletop with a similar chassis, the back looks identical, like they just used the tabletop back on a console set.

I wonder if that remote really goes with that set?

http://vintagetvsets.com/images/1958GEDesignerTV.jpg