Show us your vintage B&W sets!

[Kiwick]

Some of my Italian-made B/W tube sets

1) 1963 Philips, made by Philips' Italian plant, this set uses a 23" CRT with a contoured bonded lens and a transformerless audio output, with high impedance speakers hooked directly to the output tube's plate circuit.

Seems that European CRTs with bonded lenses don't suffer from PVA deterioration and cataracts like many American CRTs do

2) 1961 CGE, this set uses a 17" 110° CRT and an one-piece bakelite cabinet.

3) 1964 Phonola 23", this set uses the world's first CRT (the Philips A59-11W) with the modern "rimband" type of integral implosion protection, the screen is the actual face of the CRT envelope

i also have an Italian-made Emerson, i'll post a pic of it ASAP

Francesco