Altec Lansing TV - Videokarma.org TV - Video

julianburke · #1 08-26-2010, 10:12 PM

Anyone know of Altec Lansing TV's made in the late '40's? A friend sent some pictures of one he has but there is no info on it on the internet.

bgadow · #2 08-26-2010, 10:26 PM

There is a very brief mention of them in this month's Radio Age. It just mentions that the company announced in '49 that they would start production on TV sets. I'm too tired to get up and check the Sams index...

jr_tech · #3 08-26-2010, 10:42 PM

The only one that I see from the late 40s in my Photofact index is Model A323B in PF set 66, folder 2 (1949)... looks like they made a few models up to the early 60s... Cool, I never knew that they made TVs!
jr

***Eric H*** · #4 08-26-2010, 11:01 PM

Would this be the one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/EXTREMELY-Rare-A...item58896b44eb

I wouldn't give 50K for it, maybe 2-3 hundred.

AUdubon5425 · #5 08-27-2010, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric H

I wouldn't give 50K for it...

Boy, if there was ever a case for the resumption of tar-and-feathering...

RitchieMars · #6 08-27-2010, 02:01 AM

Wow, that seller with the $50,000 television seems to have quite a collection of horrifically overpriced vintage speakers and other tube-type paraphernalia...

julianburke · #7 08-27-2010, 12:32 PM

Actually yes, that would be the one. We talked about it briefly and he didn't know what it was worth and I assumed he was wanting a few hundred for it. I didn't realize it would turn up on evilbay; esp at this price! Good luck!!

ChuckA · #8 08-27-2010, 01:35 PM

The Altec on Ebay looks like it's cobbled up. The chassis looks correct but the rest looks like an old dresser to me.

I found an Altec set at an auction a couple years ago, interesting but was just an ugly box, auctioneer couldn't get a buck for it, went in the dumpster.

Chuck

ha1156w · #9 08-27-2010, 01:44 PM

If you look at the tag, it says Altec TV Attachment....remember back then audio components were sold as bare chassis and you built your own housing for them. I doubt seriously this TV came with the cabinet.

RobtWB · #10 08-27-2010, 02:59 PM

Wow. That "console" sure looks like a mid to late 50's dresser that has been repurposed for a tv. Everything about it looks wrong.

Were those altec lansings like the Fleetwood tv reveivers???

ChuckA · #11 08-27-2010, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by RobtWB

Were those altec lansings like the Fleetwood tv reveivers???

The one I junked was in a "real" TV cabinet, but I imagine they were available for custom installations, like Radio Craftsman and Fleetwood.

Chuck

Phil Nelson · #12 08-27-2010, 05:05 PM

Dang, that's the ugliest thing I've seen in my life. I mean the "TV attachment," not the dresser. Something tells me it was designed by an engineer with no input from a real designer:

"Hmmm . . . and what should we put to the side of the screen? Aw, who cares -- just put a big blank piece of metal with a tuning eye in the middle."

Phil

AUdubon5425 · #13 08-27-2010, 06:04 PM

I'll let my 12" Sampo go for a mere $10,000 - custom fitted into a dime store roll-around cart with genuine cardboard veneer. "The Sampo of Constant Sorrow."

Seriously though, it is pretty foolish to list items like that. Someone could hit "buy it now" with no intentions to pay or a phony account, and the seller would be going through crap to convince eBay to reverse the final fees on $50,000.

radio63 · #14 08-28-2010, 03:15 AM

Isn't that an Audio Craftsman chrome-chassis power amp on the right-hand side? I agree that it looks like all of these componenets were installed in this cabinet, or dresser, or whatever it originally was.

Gilbert

kx250rider · #15 08-28-2010, 11:48 AM

Those are Kaye-Halbert knobs. Not sure if they're original for the Altec set; maybe, since it's made in Hollywood and KH was only a couple miles south of there in central LA (until 1950 when they moved to Culver City). Looking at the TV, the knobs might appear too large, as if maybe they're wrong.

Charles