The pictures above are as found, I am currently restoring the set to it's original operating condition and will post new images when done.

The story below was supplied to me by the party that I purchased this rare piece from:

"I bought this television from a friend, Bill Young, who needed money to rebuild his car about 1978, and have kept it in my living-room ever since. We speculated that this TV is one of the very first ever produced, which should make it be in the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. The story he told me about the television was that it belonged to his uncle, who lived in Chicago at the time.

The story goes that Uncle Young was an electronics engineer who worked in the broadcast industry. He would go to his home at night and call the television station to inform them about the quality of their transmission as he saw it in his residence. He further went on to say that, at that time, TV broadcasts did not last all night long anyway, that they only would broadcast several hours each day in the first place. Sometimes, they would to do a special transmission tests, after hours, so to speak, privately arranged between these engineers. Anyway, the romance of what that activity as it might really have been has stayed with me, and you can only imagine what it was yourself."