William Englebert Fahrenfeld and his TV

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Just wanted to throw in my own .02:

If it were my set, I would seriously just leave it all as is. It appears to be unmolested with a decent (though slightly alligatored) finish. It has almost all of its original tubes for crying out loud! I would think it more prudent to preserve this set as "all original" as possible. Maybe find a HO tube that is an RCA from the right era, replace the horizontal coupling caps with what was originally in there, etc. Just to make it as stock as possible.

I just don't feel there is much to be gained from restoring such a rare set. I think the tuner would need to be modified to receive analog signals anyway. With less than 20 of these sets surviving-and all that are documented on the internet seem to have been heavily hacked up at some point; I would think it would be far more important to keep one of these in its 1939 splendor.

Think about it.