Some of my acquisitions of December, 2008

[Captain Video]

Here are some pictures - as I promised - of some of my acquisitions of December of the last year. The bakelite Admiral and the huge, big Emerson set are not on this thread, because I had already posted pictures of them here on a thread that I posted before.

Here we have, my FIRST roundie ( FINALLY!!! ) a 1950 GE table model that most likely witnessed the birthday of TV broadcasting in Brazil in 1950... and, an ultra-mega-rare find, a 1952 21 inch Invictus console set with radio. THIS was the second model of television set ever produced in Brazil ( November of 1952, if I am not mistaken ) and, the FIRST 21 inch set ever made here. The first set was a 17 inch model made earlier that year by the same factory. A very important piece of equipment, from an Historical point of view. The sets Invictus produced in 1952 were not only the first made in Brazil, but on the whole Southern Hemisphere... most likely, even in the whole of Latin America as well ( I have no information regarding TV manufacturing in Mexico at that point in time ).

Now, I ask you guys to wish me a LOT OF LUCKY, because the seller of those sets is a woman who is not very mentally stable - I've had some VERY irritating conversations with her by phone already - so I hope her husband, who is the one really in charge of things, deliver these sets on the right time to the point where I am suposed to pick them up ( the deal is for him to deliver these TVs at the same antique shop where the Emerson and the Admiral are already - I've talked to the owner of the antique shop, and he agreed with this arrangement ). I will travel Sunday, and most likely arrive there Monday, to pick them up.

Now, the other TV on the pictures is the TV set from the early 60's that I was lucky enough ( an EXTRAORDINARY amount of luck ) to find just some blocks away from my house... there it was, sitting on the door of an antique shop. Those TVs were, 99% of them, long destroyed where I live, so that was a VERY happy finding. Also a pretty rare set, an "ABC" , another Brazilian brand like Invictus, also long extinct. I really LOVE the knobs of this TV, they are shaped like little space rockets, very cool!!!