Value of a GE set

[Captain Video]

It's the truth: GE really took a portable set and put into a cabinet to turn it into a console. I have that very same set, only mine is a tabletop. I already saw near me three identical sets that the factory put them into a very "futuristic-50's" looking cabinet. The last one is a GE rebadged Hotpoint and is for auction in the brazilian version of Ebay. The set also looks like to have a cataract.

[Einar72]

Looks like someone lopped off the end of the CRT! My dad bought the high-end version of this set in 1959 or 60. It had power tuning, with a circle of silver buttons around the channel numbers. It sorta looked like a pot-pie-pan bottom! Press a button, and it chased around and released the button when it got to that channel. Also had a pretty orange wedge of light that would point at the current channel. Had a remote the size of a small hardbound book, reverse-flash-plated with the full GE logo, and one or two shades of anodized colors on a white background. It had keys somewhat like an old portable cassetteplayer, but across the long side. I broke the plastic manual-tuning shaft (why it needed both I don't know) one day, and it stuck on the local NET (now PBS) channel, which had a test pattern howling much of the day! Boy, did I cry

For you fellow Seattle AK'ers, we got it at the Broadway Mel-Ody store, and when they moved outside the city limits, neighbor Pizza Pete opened its first short-lived Buggy Whip restaurant in the space (it was like a Farrell's without the ice cream...bor-ing).