[Jeffhs]

The TV is in bad shape. The CRT looks like the neck was knocked off or the tube was otherwise relieved of its vacuum (the phosphors are blown off the center of the screen), the tube has a cataract, and who knows what else may be wrong with the chassis. I don't know, however, whether the seller is just anxious to get the set out of the house or if there is some reason he has to have it out quickly. Or perhaps, as another poster mentioned, there may be something very fishy going on.

In any event, I don't think this TV will be good for anything much other than spare parts. I wouldn't even put in a new CRT -- given the set's condition, this might and probably would be throwing good money after bad, if the set has more serious problems such as a bad flyback, power transformer, or.......? The cost of a rebuilt tube for this set may very well exceed what the TV is worth in its present condition; since this set is well over 40 years old (no UHF, which dates it pre-April 1964) the power transformer, flyback, etc. may be NLA or very difficult to find these days.