Cabinet and CRT only - rare '54 Westinghouse H840CK15

[decojoe67]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Late-1940s-...kAAOSwEbBeNKvD
If someone has the chassis and the CRT offered checks okay, you'd have one very impressive historic TV. It's the first color set offered in the US, even before the RCA CT1000. It sold for $1300 in '54, which would be like spending $12,000 today.

[WISCOJIM]

Who got it???

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[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by WISCOJIM

Who got it???

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Don't know, but it was gone EARLY this morning shortly after the original post.

But the asking price was only $50 - I wonder if someone local grabbed it to make an aquarium...

John

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Don't know, but it was gone EARLY this morning shortly after the original post.

But the asking price was only $50 - I wonder if someone local grabbed it to make an aquarium...

John

I saw it early and was tempted myself to hit the BIN. I posted it also on ARF, so I'm hoping I alerted a collector about it. The word is that someone got a heck of a deal just for the CRT. They have a higher survival rate than the RCA CT-100 model. How could anyone go wrong at $50.

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

I saw it early and was tempted myself to hit the BIN. I posted it also on ARF, so I'm hoping I alerted a collector about it. The word is that someone got a heck of a deal just for the CRT. They have a higher survival rate than the RCA CT-100 model. How could anyone go wrong at $50.

Makes me shudder at the thought of the buyer tossing the CRT into a dumpster on the way home with the cabinet..

John

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Makes me shudder at the thought of the buyer tossing the CRT into a dumpster on the way home with the cabinet..

John

Me too, but if the CRT didn't happen to be good (a probable scenario) it is not as big a loss... until rebuilding becomes more than a pipe dream duds are not going to be worth more than a restored monochrome set.

[kvflyer]

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[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Makes me shudder at the thought of the buyer tossing the CRT into a dumpster on the way home with the cabinet..

John

I would suspect that a collector got it because I couldn't imagine someone paying $50 to make a cupboard out of what, to a non-collector, would appear to be a rather plain-Jane and well worn box of a cabinet. We can only hope anyway.

[SpaceAge]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

I would suspect that a collector got it because I couldn't imagine someone paying $50 to make a cupboard out of what, to a non-collector, would appear to be a rather plain-Jane and well worn box of a cabinet. We can only hope anyway.

You're probably right. Some people want the "distressed look" but this thing is beyond that.