Help ID'ing a set?

[Dave S]

A friend asked me to help him ID the model of this old Emerson that was his first family TV. I wasn't able to pin it down any closer than "mid-fifties model." Can anyone do better than that?
Thanks,
-- Dave Sica

[Steve McVoy]

1949. The one in the link below is very similar

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1949-Emerson-644-12in.jpg

[Dave S]

I missed that! Looks pretty close.

I think I was hung up on mid-fifties due to my friend's recollection that his folks got it in the fifties, plus my own recollection of everything my parents had in the house in the mid-to-late fifties having those skinny wire legs!

[Electronic M]

The round CRT is a dead giveaway of late 40's-early 1950's. Most makes went all square between ~1951-54.

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

The round CRT is a dead giveaway of late 40's-early 1950's. Most makes went all square between ~1951-54.

I wonder if people complained about the new square tubes, after all, eyeballs are round the screen should be too.

[Reece]

Same as pie are round.

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by Eric H

I wonder if people complained about the new square tubes, after all, eyeballs are round the screen should be too.

Most certainly they did not complain , in fact , the new rectangle shape was seen as a futuristic advancement by most folks . Remember , TV's main competition was movies and theater , and both movie screens and theater stages were rectangular . Photographs also . The end of the porthole fad was the end of any kind of love for round screens and I remember in my youth scrapping hundreds of unwanted round screen TVs . Funny , like any other recently made obsolete household appliance , folks couldn't ditch their old sets fast enough when the latest and greatest came along .

[old_coot88]

Color roundies underwent the same 'obsoletizing' when rectangulars took over.