Extremely well preserved wood veneer cabinet television set manufactured in 1955. These TVs were first produced in 1953. The price then was £48.55 making this very much a luxury item for the time that would be expected to make your neighbours envious hence the attention to detail in the butterfly cabinet veneer. Most TVs of this time were designed to look like fine furniture. This Pye V4 was dubbed the washboard set because of the appearance of the corrugated part of the cabinet below the tube. The original ancient monochrome tube & electronics have been taken out of this set & skilfully replaced with a modern colour tube & electronics. This makes feeding a useful video signal in MUCH easier than having to generate an obsolete 405 line video signal using hard to obtain & very expensive converters. All the controls still work as intended - volume, brightness, rotary channel switch & on off switch. Around the back are extra contrast & colour knobs. Colour TV of course only arrived many years after this TV was built so normally the colour control will be cranked right down to show a realistic monochrome picture. For events, displaying a punchy colour picture on such an obviously ancient set should produce a head turning double take reaction from most people. We can supply the required UHF modulator & a little media player to enable easy viewing of stills or video file(s) from an inserted USB stick.
Prop ID: 2667
Width: 40 cm
Height: 47 cm
Depth: 47 cm
Age: 1950s-1960s
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