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Originally Posted by Gleb
What a nice television! We lack such bakelite cuties here in the country. But what we have is a plenty of early televisions totally plowed up with a soldering iron and then decayed in sheds. It was non-traditional to just leave a retired television where it was. A "real man" must try to "fix" it or at least "improve" if it still works, and then, after spoiling it, triumphantly throw "that obsolete crap" into a dank barn to rot there...
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I so agree. The old-timers did not simply toss old items in the garbage like society does so easily these days. Us collectors should be grateful to them! The interesting thing about this one is it wasn't even stored away from what I understand. It was a fixture in the house since 1948!