I contributed some of the material on Tom's color tv page. And I believe there is no argument that Admiral produced a color receiver early on. I'm sure in somewhat limited quantities. Most of the sources that claim Admiral's Dec. 30, 1953 "first" take it from the newspaper article I posted above. An Admiral Corp. press handout. But when was the public able to go into a store and purchase one? Since Admiral was located in Chicago, perhaps they offered the sets for sale there. If a Chicago area fourm member wants to take up the challenge and check out the Chicago Sun-Times or Tribune archives at the library, for Dec.30, 1953 to perhaps Feb. 1954 and see if Admiral advertised color receivers for sale, It will settle the question. There is no SAMS listed for an Admiral color set until the 1957 models. In response to a previous post, RCA demonstrated all electronic color tv with a shadow mask picture tube as early as 1950. See Ed Reitan's site.
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/
Steve