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I left Milwaukee at 2AM, and arrived in Chicago at the estate sale around 4AM. I was the 5th person through the door when the sale opened at 9AM.

When the doors opened, I went directly to the set and claimed it for myself and plunked down all of $75 for it. The set is missing the 19VP22 crt. I asked the estate sale workers if they had come across any picture tubes, and they said they looked for the picture tube but they did not find any picture tubes.

Doug Harland also attended the sale and we had a chance to visit for a while before the sale opened at 9AM. Doug did a bit of research about the man who used to live here. He was an engineer and he worked for Motorola, which is no doubt how the set came into the possession of the engineer. Because this man was obviously a pack rat / hoarder, I would have to believe that if the set had come to him with a crt, he would have kept it. I therefore conclude he got the set from Motorola without the crt.

After Doug and I carried the set out of the basement we took the back of the set off and discovered the chassis is stamped "EXPERIMENTAL NOT FOR RESALE" So this set is either an engineering sample or a pre-production demonstration sample. The set is in very pristine original condition.

As many of you may recall, shortly after the 19CK1 hit the dealer showrooms, RCA started producing the 21AXP22 21" color crt. Motorola decided to send upgrade kits to the dealers to upgrade all of the existing sets that had the CBS Hytron 19VP22, and install a 21AXP22. As a result there are very few of the 19CK1 sets, that were left in their original 19" configuration.

So this set is not only rare because it is still in the original 19" configuration, but it is even more rare because it was stamped "Experimental" and was never released from the factory to the general public.

I want to thank Doug Harland for helping me haul this set out of the basement of the house it was in and for taking the photos I am posting. I am not able to take any photos myself right now because my street is under construction and I cant get my van into my driveway to unload the set from my van.

THIS SET WAS NEVER CONVERTED TO A 21" CRT. It is still a very rare original 19" set. It is for this reason I am asking the collector community to put the word out to try and find a 19VP22 CBS Hytron crt for this set so I can install the original crt that this set was intended to have. This set deserves to be preserved in the original state it was originally configured.