UK prewar TV sells for over $15000

[yagosaga]

Hello,

yes, I am the winner, but I am not the keeper. I will give my tv collection to a museum, and the keeper of the museum wants this pre-war tv set too due to the concept of the exhibition. So, I was authorized to buy the set and do all arrangements. When things go well, I will join the keeper on the trip to Britain to collect the set. But this depends on my health status, currently I feel weak from a half year of a severe chemotherapy. Before some weeks I wasn't able to write due to a nervous damage in the fingers. Meanwhile, it's getting better.

I know the restoration story and have monitored it in the web, Steve has done a fabulous job.

Kind regards,
Eckhard

[jeyurkon]

Eckhard, it's admirable that you continue to assist the museum and others even during your illness. John

[yagosaga]

Hello,

meanwhile, we have picked up the set, and are back in Germany. We were a member of the Museum, a journalist, and me. The journalist came with us for writing a report for the German press.

On last Wednesday, we started at 6 o'clock in the morning, and we arrived at Steve at around 7 o'clock in the evening after a trip through five countries (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Britain).

We meet Steve with a kind reception, tested the set and packed it well for transportation. Thurday, we arrived in Braunschweig at 10:15 p.m.. We had traffic jam in Antwerpen and around Eindhoven.

Yesterday, we have brought the set to the Kuba-museum in Wolfenbuttel and unpacked it. All went well without damage, and the set is well funktioning. Even the centering magnet kept its position (i expected that it will move by hits and kicks while driving on bumpy roads.

Here are some photos:

Trip to Britain. Our goal was near Stratfort on Avon.
http://fernsehmuseum.net/events/img/TripToBritain.jpg

Steve Ostler, with the set:
http://fernsehmuseum.net/events/img/SteveO.jpg

Short demonstration of the operational set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5onSwx7_Cn0

A look behind the screen:
http://fernsehmuseum.net/events/img/702_01.jpg
http://fernsehmuseum.net/events/img/702_02.jpg

Arriving and unpacking in the Kuba-Museum:
http://www.kuba-museum.de/neu.html

BTW: I did the trip one day after a bone scan, so I was radioactive. Here is a short video of my radioactivity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb8VcG7Moro

But meanwhile, radioactivity already declined significantly.

Kind regards,
Eckhard

[tubesrule]

Great pictures of the trip Eckhard! I especially liked the YouTube of the set in operation. It looks like it has a nice bright crt in it.

Kuba must be putting together a very nice collection for display. Are they concentrating on televisions or do they want representative items of all the things they make?
You mentioned that they are wanting to do something along the lines of the ETF, so will they be operating these sets on a limited basis?

Darryl