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I wanted to share some of my recent finds. Yep, stuff still comes out of the woodwork, even when you don't look too hard!
The first 2 are from a weekend getaway we took recently to Pennsylvania. The others I got from a local tube audio collector who I often swap with.
1) This turned up at the Zern's Farmers/Flea Market, not too far from Pottstown (Douglasville?). An indoor vendor had this for $10. An attractive color, I feel, and a brand that doesn't show up much (my first): Olympic. Someone posted a similiar set earlier this year, but I didn't search enough to find it. I don't know if the other one was an Olympic but the thing they have in common is that they are made in Japan. Very American in design. Heavily built with a wrinkle finish on the metal portion of the cabinet. UHF seems to be an afterthought but at least it's there. The set powered up but with only a partial raster & nothing but static for audio.
2) This was at an inside booth at Renniger's Adamstown Flea Market. Wow, what a place! The best one we hit. The vendor was gone but luckily his neighbor was watching the booth. It is an Emerson with a solid bakelite cabinet, paint-speckled but in good overall shape. The crt had a brightener-it tests just mediocre after a good warmup. Worth the $20 I paid, I would say.
3) This is a CBS Columbia 17" table model in a metal cabinet, in good overall condition. My friend who found it said it initially sold at auction for an unbelievable $150. Shortly thereafter it showed up in another auction house, where he was able to buy it for just a few dollars. That shows the fickle nature of this hobby, I guess. Nothing real exciting about the TV except perhaps the label on the back. No surprise that CBS would be pushing its system like that. There is a socket on the back & additional label (let me know if anyone is interested in a photo of it); there are a few wires running to that socket, which has a cap over it.
4) My first Olympic, my first CBS TV, now my first Setchell-Carlson. An odd way to make a 19" portable, for sure, but then S-C like to do things different. The cabinet is a little beat up and there are some scratches in the CRT face, so this won't be a "museum piece". I thought this was early sixties but then I saw the address on the back has a zip code so I guess they made these later on.
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Bryan
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