Philco on eBay

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I once had a rectangular color Philco console from about 68 or 69. I always kick myself for letting it go. It did have a very nice picture. The only other Philco-Ford color set I ever saw around here was a solid state console from the end of the Ford era. It belonged to some friends of ours and never impressed me at all. The picture always seemed to be too dark & muddy.

Don, great to hear the history, as always! I have seen Sylvania built Philco crts in several sets; others lacked an EIA number to check it by. Recently I found a dud Philco RE21FJP22 with the Philco EIA, which clued me in. I used to have a list of everyone who was building color picture tubes in the US (c.1970) but darned if I can find it now. I think there were about 7 or 9 companies.