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Yeah, you are right, this thing is really a 24" !
I am kind of surprised, I never imagined that 24" were sold here BEFORE 1958.
In '58 - when the 110º CRT was introduced - GE started manufactiring 24" sets here, I even have some magazines advertising those sets. Before that year, I only saw 21 inch and below, and all old advertising I found, both on magazines and newspapers only promoted 21 inch, 17 inch and smaller sizes, never 24 inch.
Well, maybe this thing belonged to some "deep pockets" guy, who traveled to the United States in 1953 or 1954 and brought it here... but he MUST have traveled by ship, I think it might have been IMPOSSIBLE to bring such a heavy beast on the fragile commercial airplanes of that period!
From time to time, those "rich people's sets" appear here, revealing some surprises that should not be here. A few years ago, they put for sale all the contents of the mansion of the family who owned the biggest toy factory of the country ( a toy factory that today, thanks to the chinese is a shadow of what it once was ). Inside the house, was found a 1954 Dumont TV set, that they bought brand new in a trip to the USA. Dumont NEVER had import representatives, much least a factory here, so it was quite a found.
There are three color roundies here, that I know are still intact and on the hands of qualified people; seems that is all that is left from the 300 imported in 1963. I really don't have any hope that others might appear.
I will see if I can make the guy sell the TV cheap, I don't know, probably it would be a pain in the neck, to put my hands in such a set, a set with a hard-to-find CRT, but this vintage TV addiction is something really serious... I wish I could put my hands on all 1950's and some 1960's TV sets that I see around here... luckily, there are not too much of them!!!
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