What is this? (Dreamsbeard edition!)

[Dreamsbeard]

Hello folks,

Since it was fun to see technicolor post about is finds, I thought i'd go ahead and post this one. For 100$, it's too rich for my blood, but I like the cabinet, so yeah...what is it?

Thanks!

[Dreamsbeard]

Wow, no one care to take a guess? I can't read what's on the tv but it seems to be 2 words...curtis mathes?

[Geoff Bourquin]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see any pictures

[Kamakiri]

I couldn't see anything either

[zeno]

Never seen this one. Looks like it has presets for channel selection.
The word looks like it says ? color. At bottom R looks like a
GE logo " General (GE) Electric". But I dont remember GE's
with presets. I think they went right to RAT's & skipped the
first step. Dont look like a GE anyhows..........

Theories:
Vintage 1980, has Sanyo look to it. Sanyo used presets late.
Sanyo built house brand sets like Sears/LXI. I believe CM
used Sanyo chassis BUT CM was super rare in E. Mass.
Only saw a few in 40 yrs. So I think its a Sanyo built house
brand 1980 ish 25".

PLS let us know what it is !!!

PS Give em your phone # then offer them $25, you are doing
them a big favor at that.

73 Zeno

[Dreamsbeard]

That's weird...it worked fine on my pad yesterday, but I can't see the picture now.

Here's the link to the add :

http://quebec.kijiji.ca/c-acheter-et...AdIdZ475737484

Sorry about that!

[Dreamsbeard]

Originally Posted by zeno

Never seen this one. Looks like it has presets for channel selection.
The word looks like it says ? color. At bottom R looks like a
GE logo " General (GE) Electric". But I dont remember GE's
with presets. I think they went right to RAT's & skipped the
first step. Dont look like a GE anyhows..........

Theories:
Vintage 1980, has Sanyo look to it. Sanyo used presets late.
Sanyo built house brand sets like Sears/LXI. I believe CM
used Sanyo chassis BUT CM was super rare in E. Mass.
Only saw a few in 40 yrs. So I think its a Sanyo built house
brand 1980 ish 25".

PLS let us know what it is !!!

PS Give em your phone # then offer them $25, you are doing
them a big favor at that.

73 Zeno

Yes Sanyo did make TV for other brands, and from what I heard around here they where good sets too! I went to see an early 80's sears (Sanyo made) set the other day, but to my dissapointment , it was shot to hell

[Geoff Bourquin]

My guess is Sanyo. I think the two words below the keypad might be "Solid State"......Gee, remember when saying that was a big deal?

[Dreamsbeard]

Well I don't because I was too young! :P But anyway, a television like that, that is still obviously a centre piece of the livingroom, and is probably still in use, must have seen to many hour of play anyway, the CRT must be very dim (I'd say 2/3 of the tv set I went to see had a weak crt).
Is it possible that the crt of a daily watcher still be good after 30+ years? The odds must be really thin...

[Bill R]

Looks like a sears set to me. Possibly made by Sanyo.

[sampson159]

possibly a bradford.looks like a rent a center set to me

[zeno]

Did rent-a-center have private labeled sets ? Never seen one but we
were in the 'burbs, rentacenter was a city thing back then.
Bradford ( Grants) was a thought but the portables I remember
were GE & consoles Wells Gardener....... Did W-G ever make their
own solid state set ? I only remember the hybrids with modules.

The suspense is killing me, what is this beast !!!

73 Zeno

[zeno]

Whoa just saw the ad. Canada, this changes things. Didnt Electrohome
go over to MGA built sets ? Somebody that speaks french needs
to find out what it is.................

73 Zeno

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by sampson159

possibly a bradford.looks like a rent a center set to me

Rent-a-Center sold many different makes. RCA, Zenith, Quasar and Panasonic.
I don't know if they had their own brand, like Colortyme.
IIRC, Curtis-Mathes owned Colortyme. Their electronics were branded Rutherford.

[sampson159]

bradford was the lable here in ohio.i do remember rutherford badged sets from the kentucky-tennessee area.the bradford sets were wells-gardner built.pretty good sets electronically but the crts were mitsubshita.had an odd look to them.very yellowish.i didnt like the crt but we swapped a couple for sylvania inlines and they looked and worked extremely well.