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Eric H
10-09-2009, 08:51 PM
This should be interesting to watch.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Viewtone-TV-television-7-screen-1945-first-postwar-TV_W0QQitemZ170392677652QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Defa ultDomain_0?hash=item27ac31ed14
jeyurkon
10-09-2009, 10:20 PM
This should be interesting to watch.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Viewtone-TV-television-7-screen-1945-first-postwar-TV_W0QQitemZ170392677652QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Defa ultDomain_0?hash=item27ac31ed14

You can say that again.

John
bandersen
10-09-2009, 11:04 PM
Was it really from 1945? I thought the first post-war sets were from '46.
David Roper
10-09-2009, 11:15 PM
Most sources give 1946 as the date of introduction for the VP-100. Viewtone made prototypes earlier that looked a little different; this isn't one of them.
bandersen
10-10-2009, 11:15 PM
Ended with "reserve not met".
David Roper
10-10-2009, 11:48 PM
What the...? This was a 7 day auction, why did it end?
kx250rider
10-11-2009, 11:03 AM
I've only ever seen one other... Pretty rare!

Charles
jeyurkon
10-11-2009, 12:04 PM
What the...? This was a 7 day auction, why did it end?

I didn't notice when it started. The bidding results says the duration was 7 days.

John
ChuckA
10-11-2009, 01:41 PM
What the...? This was a 7 day auction, why did it end?

Probably because someone paid his asking price.
David Roper
10-11-2009, 02:32 PM
Jeyurkon:

Starting Price US $900.00 Oct-09-09 13:37:24 PDT

It ended nearly 6 full days short of 7 days.


Chuck: The auction hadn't even met the reserve, I wonder if it was less than his "asking price". If it were me I never would have ended it so soon with bidding like that in the first day.
Eric H
10-11-2009, 02:43 PM
I'm guessing he got an offer behind the scenes.
ChuckA
10-11-2009, 03:50 PM
The set has been offered to a few collectors before, just no takers.

Price was $2500.
wa2ise
10-11-2009, 07:33 PM
Price was $2500.

At that price, I'd expect it to have been electronically restored. And sellers, be sure to take a picture of a set you want to sell with it showing a video picture on its CRT. That tells us that the unobtanium parts are functional (flyback, CRT, yoke, power transformer and such.