Well, I took in another orphan today. A friend of mine was cleaning out the back room of his office last week and he found this early-60's Maggie console phono with the cord cut and the rectifier tube on the floor underneath it. He said he had no idea where it came from but that it had probably been buried back there for close to ten years.
Well, the cabinet is nicked up and looking at the turntable you wouldn't hold out much hope - the overarm is broken off and missing, as is the platter mat. The stylus was bent down - just a sad sight. Also (I'd see later) there are punctures in two of the speaker cones.
I looked it over and saw it had a power transformer, two 6BQ5 outputs and some decent-sized 10-inch drivers and 4 or 5" tweeters. The turntable was not stuck. After spending about ten minutes straightening the stylus I said "what the heck" and spliced in a new power cord.
I was expecting to hear a lot of hum but it was silent. I looked in the back and all four tubes were glowing...touched the stylus and "brrrrrp!" I couldn't believe it. Grabbed an old test record and the darn thing cycled & played!
It needs some love to get it where it ought to be - repairing the speakers to start - but this, the most unlikely of candidates, is the first console stereo I've ever gotten that worked from the get-go.
"8301-10" is stamped on the chassis - the changer is a G600 with an EV 26 cartridge. The model is 1SC287G.
I found this ad for a 1SC288 from May '63 - seems sets w/o radios ran about $50 less: