Stop the insanity, this is like the third British Pre-War this person has listed with the guts ripped out and color converted!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3061772863&category=3284

That's awful. I would have at least did a cleaner job of mounting the circuit boards. All it looks like he did was unmount the new CRT and turn it around and mounted it to the old cabinet. But that back is really bad. I would have looked for and used something with many small holes or slots, cut to fit.

And it doesn't work. :uzi:

Wow, that is BAD. That solid state TV looks pretty modern so the conversion must have been done not too long ago. Don't these people realize that such jobs have no antique value?

Ha ha ha! It's a fabulous joke. Almost as good as that guy from Oz that posted the $99,999,999.99 BIC pen.

So, in 1939 they were already using rectangular CRT's?????

That mask and cabinet are 1970's or later. The item # of the the newer TV stuffed into the box, probably from an auction or bankrupt sale, is #1939. It's NOT the year.



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Even on sets that use a round picture tube the mask can be rectangular. I have a 1940's Westinghouse that is like that. I am not familiar with the particulars of this set but it doesn't look like 1970's style to me, looks like earlier than the 1950's at least.

That is a 1939 HMV 1800. The mask is original. It just makes the tube look rectangular:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/hmv1800.html

By the way, the German E1, made in 1939, had a rectangular tube:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/e1.html

I don't think this guy is gutting the old sets, since a prewar set with original chassis is worth $6000 and up, compared to the $800 or so he is getting for these sets. I suspect that the guts were long ago lost.

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It is interesting to note that there has only been one bidder so far, unlike some sets where the bidding goes nuts for a comparatively low value set. At least on this one, it looks like PT Barnum might not have been completely correct (his famous quote was that there is a sucker born every minute).