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Seems to me it depends on when the butchery was committed. It isn't clear from the ad, but the presumption is that is was done a long, long time ago. Given the sun-fading of the bottom of the photo, I would tend to agree. I would think if it was done in 1959 by a TV-reparman, on a ten-year-old TV that was dropped or broken beyond repair anyway, and he put it in his front window or on the main counter, and the novelty of it brought him extra business, then the guy was a certifiable genius.
Or suppose the TV fell off the back of a moving truck, or was in a house fire, and the front panel was all that was salvageable, and somebody did something clever with what was left. Still an idiot?
How about a really poor man, making a toy TV for his daughter's playhouse for Christmas because he couldn't afford better. Yeah, what an idiot.
I remember from my childhood a local repair shop hoisting a complete late 50's Harley chopper up a flagpole and welding it there. He was in business for a long time. The bike stayed hoisted at least 30 years, 'til it got too rusty to be safe. Never mind that now, a 1959 Hog might be worth $20000, at the time it was worth fifty bucks, tops, and it served a much greater purpose, "butchered".
Just have an open mind, before calling anyone an idiot. If I've sensed a trend around here, it's that we seem to do that a lot.
Right now, the thing seems to have $77.50 worth of "novelty" to someone. I bet a complete 810 would have trouble fetching that amount, even now, on eBay. So who's to say?
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