I own a RCA CTC-100 which I purchased from a television store in Hiawatha Kansas. The store McQueen TV purchased the set to sell and it never sold. When the store's owner Jim McQueen retired I purchased the set from him. It was on display and worked. Jim had mentioned that RCA would occasionaly borrow the set for conventions in Kansas City but hadn't contacted him in several years. That was 15 years ago.

Jim made sure the set worked perfectly and gave me the repair manual and a complete set of tubes for the set. The high voltage tube was broken "by my kids" as well as the channel knob. I have the knob and it could be repaired.

Right now the TV is in climate controlled storage and I have decided it is probably time to part with it. It is complete, origional, and works perfectly. I remember watching a KC Chiefs play off game on it. "it has been a long time since the Chiefs were in the play offs". The tube is bright and the color very good. I was amazed at how good it looked.

I have decided to sell my complete collection of televisions. I have 20-30 sets most not working. The CTC-100 is the only one in climate controlled storage.

I have been looking on ebay and can't find any history on CTC-100 sets. I am also very dissapointed at the value of many vintiage sets. I don't know if I should hold a local auction or sell them on ebay.

Advice?

I would really like to just sell the entire collection. I also have a complete SAMS collection "also from McQueen TV" and boxes and boxes and boxes of tubes. "20 or so apple boxes of new and used tubes. Most new in boxes" I have become interested in old McIntosh tube amplifier equipment and will probably keep the audio tubes but the TV tubes, radio tubes and the TV collection needs to go. Somebody needs to care for them and restore them. They are a beautiful part of electronics history.

I used to service and repair VCRs and TVs for a living. I don't know how I did this but I started saving old top loading VCRs when they came thru the shop. I have a dozen of them most with knob tuning. All in perfect working order "but the rubber has been sitting and that was 15 years ago" Are they worth anything?