Vintage Rembrandt TV Antenna

I won this antenna on ebay. It is an uncommon design that I like.

GE Ro-To TV Antenna

This is a pretty strange antenna. With its large metal wings, it must have provided good reception. It's the first one like it that I've seen.

Vintage TV Antenna

This interesting antenna is probably from the mid-1950s. It has no manufacturer's marking that I can find. It has a heavy cast iron base and an adjustment knob positioned in the center of two geodesic-shaped balls on either side. Both the rabbit ears and the center antenna section are adjustable.

Spico TV Antenna

This antenna is probably from the mid- to late-1950s. It has a vertical slide control in the plastic center section that you use for finer adjustments to the reception quality.

Surprisingly, these Spico antennas are inexpensive on ebay, but still look great on top of a vintage TV.

TV Antenna

I won this antenna on ebay. I had been looking for this particular antenna for over a year.

It is an American 5-K Indoor TV tenna (probably from the mid-1950s).

Channel Master Rabbit Ears

The two circular wires give these rabbit ears a particularly nice design. The base is cast iron and Bakelite.

Channel King Retractable Antenna

These clever antennas extend (up to 42 inches) and retract by turning the round knob on the front of the plastic cabinet. These came in several different colors of plastic and still work very well today.

Delta Beam Antenna

This unusual antenna has rabbit ears that are hinged in the middle (allowing them to fold down or up). Two coiled wires in the middle section of the antenna apparently improve reception.

I have three of these antennas, including the less common model with a lighted base.

Unusual TV Antenna

This odd-looking antenna made by the Hi-Lo Antenna Corp. is about 32" wide. I thought it would look fun on top of a vintage TV.

GE "Ro-To" TV Antenna

Circular antennas were made by various manufacturers in the late-1940s, but this variety with the open framework is less common.

Philco TB-3 TV Signal Booster

This is another early TV signal booster made by Philco. It looks a lot like a radio in its plastic cabinet.

RCA U-70 UHF Converter

This RCA unit looks more like a radio than a UHF converter. Initially, all TV stations operated using the VHF frequency. But, in 1953, Portland was the first city in the nation to begin broadcasting using the UHF frequency. Early TVs were not designed to receive UHF broadcasts; consequently, UHF converters were used to connect between the TV and the VHF antenna allowing the TV to receive both VHF and UHF signals.

1939 New York World's Fair RCA Exhibit Card

This souvenir card (I believe) was given to people visiting the RCA exhibit to certify that they had been broadcast on television (which was being introduced and demonstrated at the fair). Typically, the person's name was handwritten on the card.

Click the card image to see both the front and the back of the card.

Replacement Picture Tubes

If you own a bunch of working vintage TVs you need some replacement picture tubes in various sizes handy.

This tube is a 12LP4, shown with the harness that Philco used to mount CRTs to the cabinet. I also have spare 7JP4, 10BP4, 10FP4, 12JP4, 12KP4 CRTs for future use (and not for sale).

1950s Ideal Dollhouse TV

This TV-related toy is really cute (and I guess kind of rare). The doors open and close, the phonograph slides in and out, and the TV section pivots to hide or expose the screen. Neat!

1950s Ideal Dollhouse TV

This TV-related toy is slightly larger than the other Ideal TV toy shown above. And, this TV toy has a knob in the center which rotates a cardboard disc on which one of five pictures displays on the TV screen.

1950s Metal NBC TV Van

This TV-related toy looks nice on top of a vintage TV. It's only 6" long.

1950s Plastic Kraft TV Cameraman

I couldn't resist this TV-related vintage toy to put on top of one of my vintage TVs. He stands about 4" tall and swivels on the base.

I thought he was so cute that I bought a second one on ebay a week after buying the first one.