Apart from a "one off" exotic in the Bennett-Levy sale that went for over $25000 I think this is a new record price for a pre-war TV. It's a Marconiphone 702, a relatively common set, if any pre-war TV can be called common. I know the vendor and he is an excellent craftsman. The set's restoration has been meticulously documented http://www.radiocraft.co.uk/702.htm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1937-MARCONIPHONE-TELEVISION-/120617563157?pt=UK_Collectables_RadioTelevision_Te lephony_SM&hash=item1c155df415

That's a mighty impressive figure! You know, looking at that television... I can't help but picture a unwary person walking into a fancy home in 1937 and finding the ghostly, moving image of a face floating in a mirror. It's a technology that we take for granted today, but at one time it must have been very hard to believe.

I did it.

Hello Eckhard,

You are the happy winner? - wow! Congratulations!

The restoration story is incredible, many hundreds of hours of work and the ultimate labor of love.

How do you plan to bring it over to Germany?

Hope you are well,

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Though this is a high price, it is not a record. There have been Ebay sales over $20,000 for American prewar sets, and private sales over $50,000.

Personally, i'd rather have fun with sets made after the mid 50s and keep my hands out of those prewar monsters... i'd be afraid of working on them because the HV is provided by a massive transformer which is a VERY lethal setup...

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

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

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

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

Wow..You have a WONDERFUL collection, my friend !

Eckhard, that's a beautiful set. It's amazing to see something from 1937 working so well. Thank you for sharing the photos and videos.

I had a bone scan done to look for a minor fracture. I was amazed at the level of activity. It's also highest in the pelvic region. I was tempted to go into the lab and walk by one of the area monitors but I decided that the regulators wouldn't see that as very humorous.

For a problem like yours the bone scan makes sense. The benefits far outweigh the risk.

After discovering what the dose I received was I'm very reluctant to have one done again to look for as trivial as a fracture.

Technetium 99m has a half-life of six hours and a biological half-life of about a day depending on the chemical form. You excrete most of it in a few hours in your urine.

John

Eckhard, I believe in your Stratford-Upon-Avon picture the vehicle you are alongside with the wild print is a prototype. It is my understanding that vehicles under road test are given that distracting print as it is hard on the eyes as well as the camera, making it difficult to discern the actual design elements of the vehicle itself-also note that lack of hubcaps, which I've also seen as a common thread on these vehicles.

Hello again,

British left-hand traffic was an interesting experience. I learned it very fast and it seems easier than expected, since exists are - like in right-hand traffic - also on the outer side of the road.

In the moment, desks and shelves for the television exhibition in the Kuba-Museum are in production. I think, that we can transfer my own collection in few weeks into the museum. German television and German press will report nationwide about this event.

Beside television and Kuba products, there is also a large phonograph and gramophone collection in this museum. The concept of the television part depends on international and historical milestones. I don't know how many lifetime remaines for me, so I am still looking for missing parts.

Nothing dangerous was found in the bone scan, only one, but inactive bone metastasis. This is a good result for me.

Kind regards,
Eckhard