JR0207 Philco ‘Predicta’ television

Model 3410
Serial 16348924 x 24 x 10 in

It is a Philco Predicta Princess made in 1959, model 3410. This 17″
Predicta is in a perforated and finned metal cabinet and is particularly compact and light in weight. It originally sold $280. Philco was struggling in 1958 and came out with these compact TVs, geared to females with their compact, sleek style. They made 6 different models before going bankrupt in 1962.

The Philco Predicta is a television made in several cabinet models in a 17” or 21” screen by the American company Philco
from 1958-1960. The Predicta was marketed as the world’s first swivel screen television. The picture tube was surrounded in Eastman plastics new product called “tenite” which protected the glass and gave it its greenish tint. The Predicta also had a thinner picture tube than many other televisions at the time, which led it to be marketed as a more futuristic television set. Predicta television sets were constructed with a variety of cabinet configurations, some detachable, but all separate from the tube itself and connected by wires.^[1] Initially introduced in 1958 for the Holiday Inn hotel chain and rolled out for general consumers shortly thereafter, the Predicta was discontinued in the early 1960s.^[2]