Pre-war consoles have been going for $8,000 - 12,000 and more for a while now.

Btw, this set has been modified. The chassis photo shows a length of 300-ohm twinlead going from the antenna terminals to the RF section. 300-ohm twinlead was not introduced until 1943 - by RCA. The pre-war sets had 72-ohm inputs, and used twisted pair wire or coax lead-ins.

I hope this set hasn't had its RF section gutted and replaced by a post-war 12 channel VHF tuner! Some of the pre-war sets were modified that way after the war when the channel assignments changed.