TV lamps from the 50's and 60"s

Hello all, So you have that classic TV set that you searched for ages to find and you struggled with the schematics for weeks on end,, squinting at the components and blaming the bad lighting in the room for the wrinkles it has coursed under your eyes and now the TV is finished and there it sits proudly in the corner of the room for all to see.

Now all you need is a classic 50s TV lamp and a 50s Antenna.

Here are some of my TV lamps that would of been sitting on top of many TVs during the 50"s & 60"s
Its been a pretty crappy week here in oz and a bit light hearted fun would be good.

I have been collecting 50s 60s Items for about 16 years ,in fact thats all I have in the house ,no mod cons here.Im sure that there are some people here , on this site that will remember going into peoples homes too fix their TV sets and seeing these lamps sitting on top of the television sets
All the following lamps are original and some nearing 60 years old now.




BARSONY LAMPS

Barsony Lamps from the 50s come in many designs. The most comon being her leaning on a coconut nut tree. These lamps are a real favourite with the new kids on the bloclk,,say under 35 and depending on what model lamp you have it can bring amazing amounts of money for a lamp.The market is flooded with copies ,buyer beware! ,This one I have is an original Barsony and of a rare design.
The nick name was the Black Lady Lamp.



RIBBON LAMPS
Ribbon Lamps from the 1950s were very popular,,but to find a good one today after 60s is very hard because they are so delicate. Both these have their original ribbon. If you have one of these and need to clean it,,Its best never to touch the ribbon so ,,,put some dish washing liquid on top of it and put it in a warm shower,,,without the wiring.,,put it in the sun and ribbon dries tight again.I have many ribbon lamps ,but these two I like very much.




ANODISED LAMPS
Anodised lamps were everywhere in the 60s and 50s , the most wild designs were from the 50s and many would project a pattern on the wall .These two are from 1958 and were made be JET AGE.





THE SMOKING ASHTRAYS .
We all know smoking is a silly habit but how ridiculous is the 1950s smoking ashtary ,, look at those lips puffing out the smoke,,,madness



Well there are some of the crazy things that would sit on TV sets in the 1950s

All the best ,, pete.

Things on top of the television were a TV technician's nightmare.
Especially if they were precious.(old glass covered photos and crystal bits)
And didn't we just love the pot plants!!!
A lovely lamp collection, and well worth the effort.
JJ

G day JJ,

Thank you, pot plants on TVs,,hmm people do silly things,,very hard to get the water stain off, not to metion the water dripping down the back of the set,,,,,all the best,,pete.

Oh! forgot to add The "plastic grapes" that everyone seemed to have!.

JJ

JJ probably tasted better than the crappy fruit Woolies sells now,
Pete

Nice. I've got one of the three-legged Jetage lamps with the adjustable globe-mounted shade that tends to flop down with the smaller modern light globes. Mine's gold anodised, but they also came in red.

Sue,
Hi Sue, yes they came in blue, gold,green, silver , red, The red was the most common. Wash them in
Dishwashing liquid and then a dry off , put Armorall on them and they look new again,
All the best pete

One TV top item I frequently had to ask customers to remove were large plastic gondolas. Over flowing pot plants caused a lot of failures also. Kneeling behind tellies is why my knees are shot now.

Im still kneeling behind tellies except I praying I can fix the bloody thing.

Not to mention kneeling behind televisions, directly in pet poo!
Had to return home for shower and change of clothes.
Done several times
JJ

Yes Irext, my knees too, for same reason!

That, and a bad back, is the reason the Kriesler colour set is still on the floor in the family room unfinished.

I maybe biased as I have a soft spot for Kriesler TVs and Radiograms ,but I believe Kriesler made the best units. I have a few of them and the finish of the Cabinets were the best that Ive seen, The one pictured above us in this thread is a 1962 model and thats its original finish. Still looks new after all these years. I have 2 trades and one is in furniture finishing and restoation and if I compare Kriesler finishes and Cabinet quality to other brands of the same Era,, Kriesler Wins hand down.

At the moment I'm restoring my 1960 Kriesler radiogram and although I'm giving it a re- finish due to crazing. The veneer ,staining and cabinet workmanship is high quality which alows me to give it a re- finish with out disturbing the original stain etc etc.
This means that when its finshed you wont know ive been there and it will look as it did and original.

All the best ,,pete

I maybe biased as I have a soft spot for Kriesler TVs and Radiograms ,but I believe Kriesler made the best units

My parents had a preference for Kriesler. The multisonic radiograms sounded great. The family Krielser TV lasted for years. I took it with me when I moved into my own digs.

G
Hi G, well you've seen some of my Kriesler stuff . Your parents would of probably liked some of my old Krieslers.
,,,pete

Even the Kriesler colour tellies had nice cabinets. My Auntie had a Kriesler 26" with a Philips K12 chassis in it IIRC.

The cabinet had timber roll doors which came in from both sides to completely cover the screen and control panel.

I kept it going long past it's use by date as it had sentimental value. The final nail in it's coffin was the failure of the channel tuning IC which was obsolete. It had electronic tuning long before anyone else.

As an apprentice in the 70s the company I worked for sold Healing and HMV colour TV's with the C211 and later the C221 chassis. Horribly unreliable they were but as a result I learned very quickly.

The cabinets on those were also very nicely made with real timber finishes whereas the Rank Arena's, Sanyo's etc had plastic veneer which peeled off after a while.

Especially if they were near a window with the sun on them.