A while back on ebay I saw what appeared to be a Meissner 10-1153 (http://www.earlytelevision.org/meissner_kit.html) television set. It was listed as a "Mahogany Oscilloscope" made by the Jefferson Electric Co. (http://www.roger-russell.com/jeffmcpg.htm) I Intended to bid on it, but forgot. Anyway someone bought it for 5 bucks.

Jefferson Electric made transformers, and I suppose the guy could have read the name off a transformer or something. On the other hand, Meissner was joined at the hip with Thordarson, and it seems likely to me that a Meissner product would have Thordarson transformers.

Meissner sold the cabinets separately, so I suppose someone could have built almost anything in the cabinet.

So heres the question, did an AK'er buy it? What was inside, a Meissner television set or a Jefferson Electric oscilloscope?

http://cgi.ebay.com/GREAT-1930s-OLD-MAHOGANY-CASE-OSCILLOSCOPE_W0QQitemZ7547657691QQcategoryZ104247Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

John

Paging Steve McVoy!

DMAN! If that was a Tv it was a good one.

polaraman

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I've written him. He has a Meissner kit set in the factory cabinet. He got the deal of the century.

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Yes that was the Meissner in the factory cabinet. First one I've ever seen! The HV transformer in the set is a Jefferson with the label easily visible from the bottom of the set, so there is where the seller must have gotten this from.

What a deal!

Darryl