[John Folsom]

Hi Doug.

All the sets I have shown are in my collection (yikes, in my house!). While the Muntz works well, I did not show the whole story. Here is photos of the other side of the cabinet. The hole was factory cut, it has a routed edge and is painted, and was covered by a piece of sheet metal with wood grain contact paper, held in with screws. Whatever escutcheon was there originally is gone now. Guess I will just have to put something there which "look" reasonable, as I will likely never find a picture of what it originally looked like.

During the CTC-4 CTC-5 era, RCA was trying very hard to get color TVs into the hands of customers, so they offered "turnkey" color TV solutions to other manufacturer, like this Stromberg Carlson Model 102 CM, which is a CTC-4 clone. I have not yet restored this set, but when I first got it, I put it on the variac and brought it up and managed to get it to work after a fashion. It is on my "to do" list.