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05-30-2007, 10:38 PM
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Simple great find I made in a local ( brazilian ) auction site yesterday. It's a 1955/1956 TV-radio-phono combo made by Windsor ( despite the name, it was an 100% brazilian owned company ). Since it was a national enterprise, in a period in which Brazil was starting to become an industrial economy ( thanks to China we are going back, returning fast to our agricultural economy days ), the production numbers of such a company were extremely low, which makes sets like this very, very rare. Since it was an expensive purchase, I am buying this in association with a friend. Set is 700 kilometers away from us, and transportation will really be an issue. I ask you guys to wish me luck!
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05-31-2007, 03:41 PM
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Best of luck,,,, interesting find.
Dan
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05-31-2007, 05:01 PM
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Thanks!
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05-31-2007, 07:11 PM
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How many bands does that tuner recieve? That tuner looks similar to an old German EMUD that I used to have. Does the tuner or t.v. still work or is it going to need work? BTW, great cabinet!! That cabinet looks like one of the special-order custom jobs that are sometimes (but not often) found here.
nice score.  Dumont-First with the finest in television. 
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05-31-2007, 08:40 PM
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I talked to a fellow collector, who has A LOT MORE knowledge about those sets than I am, and he said that it is quite possible that this set is a custom job ( judging by the radio ). The seller didn't said the brand of the TV in his ad; it's because I have two newspapers ( one from 1955 and another one from 1956 ) and both have ads of Windsor table models EXACTLY like this one - so I concluded that this might be a Windsor combo. I will ask the seller if there's some brand name on the back cover - yes, it still have the intact back cover, I would not buy something like this without the cover, It cannot travel such a big distance without it and arrive with an intact CRT, can it?
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05-31-2007, 08:49 PM
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I still don't know if anything on this set works - chances are that they are not, because most likely the seller would put this on his ad. Also, if the TV was in working condition, he would ask a very high price - something like more than a US$ 1,000 that's what an early/mid fifties working TV is worth here. In the rush to buy it, I didn't had time to ask about the working status of this set - just a few hours earlier, some deep-pockets guy seemed to be very interested on buying this; probably, if I were not looking at the auction when I did, I would end not even knowing this went for sale - I can say that the Force was with me!
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05-31-2007, 10:40 PM
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If I could purcase a couple hundred sets I could retire in Brazil. I could lay back just fine on allmost a quarter of a million dollars. 1000 old tvs could make me a millionaire. This may be really worth thinking about......... Geez and I can't hardly give away an old set when I need to make room.... 
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05-31-2007, 11:21 PM
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Very nice-looking and interesting find, with some local historical interest attached. Well done, and good luck with shipping!
I'm curious: are all old (1950s or so) TVs worth a lot in Brazil, or just locally-made ones or rarer ones like that? How about other audio gear, things like old tube radios? Would there be duties (official or otherwise) in importing such gear to Brazil? Depending on the answers to questions like these, Tubejunkie may be onto something here with the idea of a business... 
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