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I guess I'm glad the things I really like to collect/work on aren't worth much to "collectors"! It means I don't have to pay a lot of dough for an interesting hobby. Another thing besides TV's I collect is school buses...buy them from churches for $200, still running. I still get the enjoyment of working on "antique" vehicles but am not paying premium prices for "collectible" cars, plus I am preserving a segment of automotive history that not too many people care about.
There is always a time at which certain things are looked at as "junk" and then... wait a little bit and they become "collectibles". Was reading about a time when people burned hundreds of old Atwater Kent, etc. 1920's battery radios in bonfires when they bought the new AC powered sets. They were junk then but are collectibles now.
Also I think the same thing is happening with the round color sets. Seems like when ebay first started up in the 90's these were just old junk, just old TV's...now the popularity is starting to go up. Just wait...in 5 or 10 years I predict that tube type color sets, even the rectangular type will probably start to be collectors items. Same thing has happened with Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, Hammond Organs, etc.
I think it is a good thing for some of us who collect items we enjoy while they are still considered common or junk...that way we are preserving them even as they are being discarded by high-end collectors and when these items finally do get to become collectibles, we haven't had to pay out the nose for them.
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