1949 Philips tv

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Originally Posted by AlanInSitges

It's Canadian. It doesn't look exactly like anything else from the time, and doesn't resemble the European Philips sets from that period either. Philips didn't sell TVs in the US during that time period, so this would have been a Canadian one-off. Curious!

TV broadcasts didn't start until about 1952 in Canada so I think the 1949 claim may be bogus.

ETA there's a guy on ARF who has a bunch of Canadian service data from this era, you might reach out to him.

There were/are lots of Canadian cities/towns close enough to the US border that they can pick up stations from the states. There were plenty of Canadians that had TVs before their country had stations...There are also a number of 1954-1960 Canadian made color TVs that predate Canadian color casting for the same reason.