24" floor standing 'Kriesler' colour television receiver with remote control.
[.1] television; convex glass 24" screen bordered by rectangular plastic frame with rounded corners, and encased by rectangular cube chipboard receiver box covered with brown wood grain patterned laminate. Brown painted wood four-legged base supports the cabinet. Front right hand side plastic panel with tuning and picture controls, and speaker mounted behind plastic vent. 'KRIESLER' embossed top of panel and round metal push button with 'POWER/ON/OFF' embossed top of panel. 8 rectangular brass metal channel push button controls. Five metal picture slide controls. Circular jack socket bottom of panel surmounted by 'TAPE' embossed in brown. Back has a rectangular brown chipboard panel secured with metal screws to exterior casing, with 3 rectangular brown plastic vents along top, and brown plastic casing attached with metal rivets, 'DANGER-/HIGH VOLTAGES INSIDE/DESIGNED AND MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY/KRIESLER (AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LIMITED/DESIGN REGISTRATION APPLIED FOR' embossed in brown and 'R. SLETTON' engraved by hand on top side of casing. Back component has VHF aerial connections. Four brown plastic hooks attached to back panel with white/crème plastic encased power cord with plug wrapped around and connected to back. Rectangular clear plastic socket for remote control bottom left of back panel. Clear adhesive label on back panel has aerial connection instructions and diagram 'MAINS INPUT SUPPLY/210-265V 50 Hz 80W... 300 ohm ribbon feeder cable... 75 ohm co-axial feeder cable... UHF AERIAL... Label Part No. 10-16769... 75 ohm UHF socket'. Four paper adhesive labels on back. Paper adhesive label, 'PHILIPS/TV RADIO SERVICE/PHONE 277 7166/ADDRESS 1 Frederick Street, Belmont/(Cnr. Belgravia St.)/Manufacturers' Service For PHILIPS/PYE/IGNIS/KRIESLER'.
[.2] remote control; large, rectangular, half black and half silver, plastic, 'Krielser', multisonic, remote control, with internal speaker and attached 2.5m beige co-axial cable, with 13 pin metal plug encased in beige plastic attached to opposite end with 'KRIESLER/KRIESLER/KRIESLER' embossed on both sides. Three black square plastic slide picture controls. Rectangular orange plastic channel button on right-hand-side. Two circular jack holes on base. 'DESIGNED AND MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY/KRIESLER AUSTRALASIA PTY. LIMITED' embossed in black on back.
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H2005.241.1-2 |
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| Accession Date: | 23 Jan 2009 |
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| Acquisition Year: | 2005 |
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Material
| Wood | Chipboard with brown wood-grain pattern laminate receiver box. Chipboard back panel with plastic enclosure. Brown painted wood legs. Plastic front panel frame. Glass screen. Metal rivets, screws and front panel.
| 1 - television |
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| Plastic/Synthetic/Polymer | 0 - Whole |
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| Glass/Glass | 1 - television |
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Measurement
| width | 495mm | includes back and front components |
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