TRK90 on eBay

[relaximus]

I'm afraid not, only have a pair of MC30's awaiting a bit of love. They work, but need a bit of cosmetic restoration (pitted chassis) along with the usual.

Dave

[Electronic M]

I believe the TuRKey-90 is somewhat rarer than a TuRKey-12, but both are sought after with more-a-less the same furvor by those who have the funds to do so.

Tom C.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I think the TRK-9/TRK-90 is rarer than the TRK-12/120, based on the number of locations or discussions of each model I have seen online.

[Steve McVoy]

We have 14 surviving TRK 9/90s in our database compared to 69 TRK 12/120s. We think that 453 TRK9/90s were made compared to 1779 TRK 12/120s.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_database.html

http://www.earlytelevision.org/us_sets_made.html

[bgadow]

Man, oh, man. When I close my eyes and picture a prewar TV in my head, this is it. Owning one someday is a dream of mine. Not going to happen this week!

[Eric H]

We just saw a record price set for a Westinghouse color set with a dud CRT, obviously there are still some high rollers out there with money to burn on the right items.
Perhaps this one will go for more than we expect.

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by relaximus

This vintage TV thing if far more intense than I could have ever imagined.

Don't get the idea that this is typical. TV collecting is a very low-buck hobby compared to what some audiophiles spend. Car collectors aren't even in the same galaxy, much less the same ballpark.

A set like this represents a tiny fraction of all the old TVs that people collect. Most are newer and far less valuable, hence the excitement when one like this surfaces.

An average price for a vintage TV might be more like $100 - $200. I have around twenty old tube TVs, and all but a couple were purchased in the $40 - $100 range, a couple of them as low as $5 or free.

Phil Nelson

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

a couple of them as low as $5 or free.

With the giver / seller laughing as I carted away the set!

[vts1134]

$12,900
A bit out of my price range.

[rld-tv01]

About the same price as the previous TRK90 a few years ago. The previous one was on loan to the Bowie MD Radio/TV museum and was in restored working condition.

[kvflyer]

Notice that the winning bidder placed the bid in the last 10 seconds and it was the only bid from the winner. Yes, I know that you can use an electronic bid monitor that will bid for you. But when I really want something, I will just bid in the last 10 seconds with my "real" top bid. I often bid very low early just to get it on the list for me to monitor...