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I'm not really sure how rare they really are. They're certainly not particularly common, and a pretty decent find (especially with the original hang tags!). What's odd is that in the mid-1990's or so I must have encountered them (in both sizes) every few months at thrift stores, yard sales, and the like-- but I never actually bought one. Then it seemed like there were several years where I *never* saw one. Then, suddenly, a few years ago, I found one at a thrift store, and since then I've spotted 4 or 5 more of them. Right now, I think I have three of the 12" ones, and one of the 19" version.
Be sure to power up and check-test the set you found-- a fair number of the ones I used to encounter at thrift stores and such had bad/flaky tuner controllers. When you power up the set, the tuner should be on channel 2. If the two-digit LED display instead shows random segments on power up, and/or the tuner doesn't respond correctly to button presses, the tuner has issues.
In any case, I'm surprised they're even as 'common' as they are-- I can't believe that there'd have been a market for an "upscale" portable B&W TV in that time period! ...especially since the digital tuner in these sets is not actually all that convenient compared with most other TVs
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