I'm afraid not, only have a pair of MC30's awaiting a bit of love. They work, but need a bit of cosmetic restoration (pitted chassis) along with the usual.

Dave

I believe the TuRKey-90 is somewhat rarer than a TuRKey-12, but both are sought after with more-a-less the same furvor by those who have the funds to do so.

Tom C.

I think the TRK-9/TRK-90 is rarer than the TRK-12/120, based on the number of locations or discussions of each model I have seen online.

We have 14 surviving TRK 9/90s in our database compared to 69 TRK 12/120s. We think that 453 TRK9/90s were made compared to 1779 TRK 12/120s.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_database.html

http://www.earlytelevision.org/us_sets_made.html

Man, oh, man. When I close my eyes and picture a prewar TV in my head, this is it. Owning one someday is a dream of mine. Not going to happen this week!

We just saw a record price set for a Westinghouse color set with a dud CRT, obviously there are still some high rollers out there with money to burn on the right items.
Perhaps this one will go for more than we expect.

Don't get the idea that this is typical. TV collecting is a very low-buck hobby compared to what some audiophiles spend. Car collectors aren't even in the same galaxy, much less the same ballpark.

A set like this represents a tiny fraction of all the old TVs that people collect. Most are newer and far less valuable, hence the excitement when one like this surfaces.

An average price for a vintage TV might be more like $100 - $200. I have around twenty old tube TVs, and all but a couple were purchased in the $40 - $100 range, a couple of them as low as $5 or free.

Phil Nelson

With the giver / seller laughing as I carted away the set!

$12,900 :eek:
A bit out of my price range.

About the same price as the previous TRK90 a few years ago. The previous one was on loan to the Bowie MD Radio/TV museum and was in restored working condition.

Notice that the winning bidder placed the bid in the last 10 seconds and it was the only bid from the winner. Yes, I know that you can use an electronic bid monitor that will bid for you. But when I really want something, I will just bid in the last 10 seconds with my "real" top bid. I often bid very low early just to get it on the list for me to monitor...