What is this? (Dreamsbeard edition!)
 

Hello folks,

Since it was fun to see technicolor post about is finds, I thought i'd go ahead and post this one. For 100$, it's too rich for my blood, but I like the cabinet, so yeah...what is it?

Thanks!

Wow, no one care to take a guess? I can't read what's on the tv but it seems to be 2 words...curtis mathes?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see any pictures

I couldn't see anything either :dunno:

Never seen this one. Looks like it has presets for channel selection.
The word looks like it says ? color. At bottom R looks like a
GE logo " General (GE) Electric". But I dont remember GE's
with presets. I think they went right to RAT's & skipped the
first step. Dont look like a GE anyhows..........

Theories:
Vintage 1980, has Sanyo look to it. Sanyo used presets late.
Sanyo built house brand sets like Sears/LXI. I believe CM
used Sanyo chassis BUT CM was super rare in E. Mass.
Only saw a few in 40 yrs. So I think its a Sanyo built house
brand 1980 ish 25".

PLS let us know what it is !!!

PS Give em your phone # then offer them $25, you are doing
them a big favor at that.

73 Zeno

That's weird...it worked fine on my pad yesterday, but I can't see the picture now.

Here's the link to the add :

http://quebec.kijiji.ca/c-acheter-et...AdIdZ475737484

Sorry about that!

Yes Sanyo did make TV for other brands, and from what I heard around here they where good sets too! I went to see an early 80's sears (Sanyo made) set the other day, but to my dissapointment , it was shot to hell :tears:

My guess is Sanyo. I think the two words below the keypad might be "Solid State"......Gee, remember when saying that was a big deal?

Well I don't because I was too young! :P But anyway, a television like that, that is still obviously a centre piece of the livingroom, and is probably still in use, must have seen to many hour of play anyway, the CRT must be very dim (I'd say 2/3 of the tv set I went to see had a weak crt).
Is it possible that the crt of a daily watcher still be good after 30+ years? The odds must be really thin...

Looks like a sears set to me. Possibly made by Sanyo.

possibly a bradford.looks like a rent a center set to me

Did rent-a-center have private labeled sets ? Never seen one but we
were in the 'burbs, rentacenter was a city thing back then.
Bradford ( Grants) was a thought but the portables I remember
were GE & consoles Wells Gardener....... Did W-G ever make their
own solid state set ? I only remember the hybrids with modules.

The suspense is killing me, what is this beast !!!

73 Zeno

Whoa just saw the ad. Canada, this changes things. Didnt Electrohome
go over to MGA built sets ? Somebody that speaks french needs
to find out what it is.................

73 Zeno

Rent-a-Center sold many different makes. RCA, Zenith, Quasar and Panasonic.
I don't know if they had their own brand, like Colortyme.
IIRC, Curtis-Mathes owned Colortyme. Their electronics were branded Rutherford. :D

bradford was the lable here in ohio.i do remember rutherford badged sets from the kentucky-tennessee area.the bradford sets were wells-gardner built.pretty good sets electronically but the crts were mitsubshita.had an odd look to them.very yellowish.i didnt like the crt but we swapped a couple for sylvania inlines and they looked and worked extremely well.