Ben and Steve: I agree with you. Steve, I did not skip over your earlier post.
I would like to share more information that I found about the Admiral color set.
First two images: An advertisement/handout for Admiral color, publication date unknown, courtesy the ETF.
http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...s/image133.jpg
http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...s/image134.jpg
(More to come as I gather up my inventory of images)
Third image: An advertisement by a service company supporting the Admiral color set, publication date unknown courtesy the internet.
http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...s/image135.jpg
On page 106 of the book, Television: The Life Story of a Technology, it is stated: “Admiral Television Corporation put the first receivers (color) on the market for $1175.00 on December 30, 1953, so that it could take a deductible tax loss on its color factory investment.”
http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...s/image125.jpg
An article where the President of Admiral claims their color set whent on sale December 19, 1953. (I think that is an ambitious claim)
http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...s/image30.jpeg
In my last post, we found a newspaper article dated February 24, 1954 showing the Admiral color set in a Pittsburg appliance store for sale to the public.
Lastly, four months after the Admiral was first announced for sale, we have a newspaper article (shown in my last post) in April 8, 1954, we have Admiral announcing a price drop of $175., all of the above, strong evidence that the Admiral color set was on sale for four months and was the first all electronic color television to sell to the public.
Having said all of that, RCA deserves the most credit for pioneering color television in our country. The CRT's used in Admiral, Westinghouse and GE were RCA engineered. RCA shared their information with the other manufacturers because they knew that getting the color TV industry off the ground would be extraordinarily difficult. RCA licensed to the other manufactures.