[Adam]

I have a similar Zenith from 1961, with both the cheap cabinet, and the remote. Mine's not a metal cabinet, but fake finish over some kind of thin press-board.

What's odd about this one is that it uses the sc300 chassis and remote, which is only set up to turn the tuner in one direction - but notice the controls on the set - both channel up and down. But both buttons are just wired together. At first I thought someone must have swapped in a switch from an sc400 set, but I picked up a few binders of zenith manuals recently, and they confirm some of these sc300 consoles actually came from the factory that way.