[Jeffhs]

Eric, when I saw the picture of your Philco Seventeener as I was browsing the forum just now, it brought back memories. I had a set like that, which Philco called the "Briefcase 19" (in an off-white cabinet) in the early 1970s, which I picked up from a neighbor's trash; the set served me well for about two years, until I moved and got a new set. The Philco worked well during the time I had it, though (although I had to use an external antenna with it because the dipole antenna in the handle was missing). The set was built like a battleship and worked as soon as I plugged it in after lugging it home (even though this set did not have a power transformer, it still weighed the proverbial ton--making it more of a "luggable" than a true portable).

BTW, I remember seeing the schematic for the "Seventeener" and my Briefcase 19 (the latter having a 19-inch CRT) in an old collection (Beitman, if memory serves) of Philco TV schematics for their line of sets manufactured in 1961. I don't know when the Seventeener came on the market, but my Briefcase 19 dated to '61. This leads me to believe that the Seventeener and the Briefcase 19 used the same basic chassis and cabinet, the only real differences being, one, the size of the CRT and two, slight differences in cabinet color (yours is red, mine was green with the CRT bezel in an off-white).