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Saw an antique TV/phonograph/stereo at Goodwill yesterday...

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...and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth anything or if it's even color. Google for "1MV381N" gets me nowhere.

With everything closed, it looks like it's just a TV:
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Controls for TV and radio (AM/FM/TV):
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"Micromatic" phonograph (vinyl record player):
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Breaker reset and warning:
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Warning said:
This back is equipped with an interlock to prevent access to dangerous electrical shock. Do not tamper with interlock or attempt to service tubes without complete removal of back. Fragile glass picture tube is dangerous to handle. Refer servicing to qualified service personnel.
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Automatic circuit breaker. Push to reset.
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Run Number: 4
Model Number: 1MV381N
Finish: CHER (Cherry)
Serial: 2910960
Watts 350
117 V, 60cy ["Cycles?" Hz?]
When ordering parts-show model finish and run no.
The Magnavox Company-Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Design certified as complying with Federal Communications Commission's rules, Part 15, in effect as of date of manufacture.
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Foreigners: Goodwill = Thrift store

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added searchable text so the new owner finds her way to this thread 🙂
 
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Nope. Maybe in 20 more years. "Inherited" one from the Grands. Called a tube stereo guy I know. He said $50 if it's working.

He could be wrong though.
 
Very few of the vintage console units are worth more than decoration or hipster furniture. Unfortunately, yours isn't an exception.
 
EvilYoda said:
Very few of the vintage console units are worth more than decoration or hipster furniture. Unfortunately, yours isn't an exception.
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Do hipster's collect that stuff? I though they just liked vinyl albums, not genuine vintage electronics. I'll admit I do like "hipster" things, but for different reasons then they do. I guess it appeals more to me because I like electronics/gadgets and I've worked in radio and television.

If it works, it would be a pretty awesome collectors piece, even if it's not worth anything. I own a vintage Rogers Batteryless radio from the mid 1930s. Still works and still has the original tubes. Rogers was my first radio gig. I interned there.
 
Haha - I had one almost identical to that as a kid that my sister and I bought from a garage sale for $10. It had a B&W TV.
 
Sure the 1 isn't an L? It's pretty worn from the pictures. Start searching for different parts of the model number and add "Magnavox" to it.

Anyways, it's kinda cool.
 
Schadenfroh said:
Interesting, a TV made in America.
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🙂

the photos look legit, but the turntable looks much newer.

Is everything else original? the cabinet looks a little too clean.

that, and these are probably just factory-made designs. I wouldn't imagine it's worth a whole lot, unless you take others' advice here: slap a "vintage" label on it and sell it to some hipster for $$$$
 
Used to own a very similar large (RCA branded) wood cabinet console stereo radio + record player + TV, also made in Indiana. I'd guess the one in the OP's photos is about 1962 vintage. Not worth trying to restore, or do anything else with, however. Unless you have money to burn.
 
My grandparents had a similarly sized piece, but it only had a WIND UP phonograph player, nothing else, and played those 1/4" thick LP's from who knows when. We held onto it for a long time. Dont know whatever happened to it *scratches head*. Guessing it was from the 20's to '40's tho.

But, yeah, that's probably a decent 'vintage' piece at any rate. You never know what you'll find at a Goodwill store!
 
call me a 'hipster,' but that thing is in nice shape and would make a pretty cool table or desk...if you have the space for not-very-functional furniture. it's probably heavy as shit.

edit: except for the swoopy back at the top. whoever started the trend to make like 50 years worth of furniture with ugly extra 'detail' like that needs to DiaF.
 
$34.93? that's about $24.93 more than I've seen them sell for at auctions, and I've seen a lot more than one of those at auctions.
 
DrPizza said:
$34.93? that's about $24.93 more than I've seen them sell for at auctions, and I've seen a lot more than one of those at auctions.
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Entirely depends on how rare they are. These things aren't. Something like a working Philco Predicta will go for a lot though. Mainly because it's so rare and iconic.

The problem with vacuum tube TVs is they tend to fail a lot due to the high heat and voltage of their components. Working examples aren't common. They can be fixed though as long as the tube itself isn't toast.

How cool would it be to find one that doesn't work, gut it, and put an LCD inside. Would look fantastic in a larger home bar.
 
looks too new to be an antique.

mmntech said:
How cool would it be to find one that doesn't work, gut it, and put an LCD inside. Would look fantastic in a larger home bar.
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too bad it would look strange with a flat screen in a box designed for a curved tube
 
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