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Originally Posted by zippyjet
During the mid 50's, at least in the states RCA made most of the early color TV chassis and actually other companies put their name on these early RCA sets. But, one electronics company produced their own line of color TV's. Both in 19 and 21" round screens. Motorolla went out on a limb and produced their own line of color TVs in the mid 50's. However I guess color TV was too new and pricey for the masses and Motorolla stopped making that line of Color TV's. It wasn't till the early 60's that they got back in the color TV derby. The number one and two giants were RCA Victor followed by Zenith who's first color TV went on sale in 1962. I'm guessing Motorolla for the TV pictured due to the thick border around the picture glass over the tube.
I couldn't think of the word but its the thick bezel around the picture tube.
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Actually the Motorola 21CT2 color set was most likely in continuous low-volume production from 1957 until about the time they introduced their next color chassis. Benman has commented that he knows a collector who has one with date codes from 1963...
I own one of the earlier ones a 21CT2B (blond cabinet finish), and feel very proud/lucky to have one of the roughly 7 known surviving sets.
Other makers did build their own large screen color sets. Off the top of my head Philco had the TV-123 chassis briefly before they started buying RCA chassis.
It's probable the OP dreamed up a set that never existed in the first place... I've dreamed up a lot of fictional sets and other things over the years of sleep I've had.