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Originally Posted by John Folsom
And here is that Philco prototype 15" set. This set was restore by Chuck Azzalina, and now proudly resides in my back bedroom. The tags date it to December 1953. It has a Sylvaina version of the 15GP22, possibly the only one known to exist.
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John, there is another working Sylvania 15GP22; it's in a CT-100 that's in the Living CT-100 list. I was never able to confirm it all, but I believe this to be correct: At some point, Philco wanted to clear its small inventory of Sylvania 15GP22's and contributed them to a Philadelphia public tech school. The school eventually dumped them by selling or giving (don't recall which) to an alert Philadelphia vintage TV collector. The collector sold one to the CT-100 collector noted above. Last I heard, only 15G Sylvania duds were left. Haven't been in contact with the owner of the Sylvania duds now in ten or so years.
Pete