Is this Zenith really "rare" ?

[kx250rider]

Nice set, but no biggie. Those did come with Flashmatic remote available, but that one in the ad is not equipped with Flashmatic (as seen with no flash windows at the corners of the mask). Just another nice 50s console is all... Probably worth $75-$100 to the right buyer... AND ONLY the right buyer.

Originally Posted by jeyurkon

I wonder where he got the 12 surviving sets number? Is there a database other than ETF's?

John

Probably nobody has bothered to log any of them in any database... I bet the National Milestone Car Society has very few 1987 Plymouths in their database either.


Charles

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

Just another nice 50s console is all... Probably worth $75-$100 to the right buyer... AND ONLY the right buyer.

Try finding ANY buyer these days. I STILL have a 24" 1958 Space Command that I can't even GIVE away. I hate this because we all know what happens eventually when you need to move something and can't. I just don't have the heart! Beautiful set!

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

Try finding ANY buyer these days. I STILL have a 24" 1958 Space Command that I can't even GIVE away. I hate this because we all know what happens eventually when you need to move something and can't. I just don't have the heart! Beautiful set!

We have an unfinished apartment in Los Angeles (waiting for the economy to get better), which is now full of TVs that I "rescued". Must be 30 of them in there. When the time comes, I sure hope I can find new homes for those sets. If not, I won't junk them, but they'll have to go in our barn out in Moorpark, which is better than being exposed to the elements, but not much better. A fellow AKer came by last fall, and left for Northern Cal with a fully loaded trailer. Made two married men and one of two wives happy.

Charles

[Steve D.]

If you were setting up a '50's era room this would be a nice display piece. Not extremely rare and the over use of the word antique for a '56 TV is a bit extreme. I guesss if you were born in the 70's or early 80's it might seem like a TV from the dawn of television.

-Steve D.

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

I guess if you were born in the 70's or early 80's it might seem like a TV from the dawn of television.

-Steve D.

There's at least one AK TV collector I met, who was born in the 90s .

Maybe we need to start preserving Daewoo TV-VHS combo units from the early 90s! Of course when I was 10 or 11, and showed up at the SCARS swapmeet looking for old TVs, I was looking for 30-year-old 7-inch electrostatic sets!

Charles