Value of a GE set

[Carmine]

I know somebody who owns this set, and I'll be sending them a link to this thread. I told them I'd ask what it was worth on the internet.

The cabinet is in pretty good shape, and they claim it works. It uses that shallow cabinet design, and has that really huge oval speaker that GE used for a while.



PM me if you're interested I guess?

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Carmine

The cabinet is in pretty good shape, and they claim it works. It uses that shallow cabinet design, and has that really huge oval speaker that GE used for a while.

A few years ago an ebay auction had a set somewhat similar to this, in that it was a shallow cabinet with a big speaker below. That auction showed the back as well as the front, and it looked as if GE just placed a portable set into a wood cabinet, and connected the big speaker in place of the little one normally inside the portable.

[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).