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Can someone help me with my (RCA) Stockholm syndrome...

cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I helped a dealer friend of mine grade/catalog some coins today and saw this laying on his desk. When we settled up, I told him I wanted it as part of the deal image.

So, does anyone know what this token was for? I'm guessing you could use it somehow to win the new RCA Stockholm TV, but that's just an assumption. I was a year old in 1970, but my grandparents had a similar-looking RCA TV (as did a lot of people then, I'm sure)...

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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bump for the morning crowd. I see a lot of them on eBay, and they aren't worth a lot- I'm just curious as to their use...
    You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am not too sure about the token, but I recognize the image as some sort of televisionary device. But I don't understand the purpose of those round thingies on the right.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,099 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This token is offered on eBay.

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    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I grew up with TV's like that... and even the 6.5 inch screen....amazing the technological advances to state of the art TV today...Cheers, RickO
  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Channel 2-13 and then the "U" channel dial!

    He who knows he has enough is rich.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,263 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Channel 2-13 and then the "U" channel dial! >>



    Them's the modern ones! I remember when UHF came out and we didn't have a TV that would get them for about two years.
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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We didn't get our first non-dial TV until I was in my teens. I was a master with the fine tuning ring.
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  • LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭
    I used to watch "The Spade Cooly Show" on a 4" screen with
    a large magnifying glass attached to the front of the screen.

    It kept us quiet 'til the pattern came on.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A remote was one of the kids. "Hey you! Turn on the hockey game!"
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  • EagleguyEagleguy Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I helped my dad build one of those relics when I was a kid that looked just like that

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    JH

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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,300 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I remember one of the harshest punishments I ever got was due to our RCA black and white console. It was about 1962 or so when the old TV wouldn't stop flipping (for you youngsters, flipping is what we called the phenomenon where the vertical hold wouldn't "hold". So the screen "flipped" from frame to frame vertically and was more than a little distracting). So dad had the TV repair guy over to take a look. Me, being the inquisitive "Dennis the Menace type" was looking over the guys shoulder as he removed the back of the TV and was fumbling around with the tubes. What I did next was (at least what I thought) was brilliant. I moved in a little closer and said Bzzzzzzt - right in the guys ear.

    That got me a stern lecture in front of the TV guy and I was grounded for two weeks.

    But it was worth it to see that guy back out of that TV at warp speed.....

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Reminds me of Lawrence Welk,
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,408 ✭✭✭
    FCL
    full cabinet lines image

    <<< surprised there's no rabbit ears up on top
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