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03-06-2011, 02:26 PM
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Nice saves on both of those sets Doug... I like all the Avanti-style sets, and a Danish-Mod SS chassis is also on my "want" list. Keep me in mind if you decide to trade those off!
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04-02-2011, 09:30 PM
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Okay, neither are rectangular nor solid-state, but they are definitely finds!
I was fortunate to attend an estate sale Friday, a day earlier than the public sale. The house belonged to a gentleman who was a ham and spent his career repairing and calibrating equipment in the Navy, from around WWII until the late 70's. The family had hauled all the electronics from the attic into the kitchen. I couldn't even tell what half of it was. It was strongly emphasized that they wanted to sell it all as a lot. Well, I didn't intend to buy so much, but my offer was accepted and I wound up taking home an F-100 filled to the brim with old Navy test gear, radios, books and the two prizes below: A Hallicrafters T-54 and a Telefunken radio with the Nazi eagle/swastikas beside the dial.  
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04-02-2011, 10:51 PM
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Yessir, great finds! I know a guy locally (collects militaria) who has one of those German sets. I don't know how rare they are but they make a tremendous conversation piece, if nothing else!
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04-04-2011, 12:15 AM
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That T-54 is also in great shape, and it is the version with channel 1, I see.
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04-04-2011, 11:07 PM
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That Telefunken was designed at the request of Goebbels himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempfanger Phil Nelson did a nice write up on The Volksempfanger as well: http://www.antiqueradio.org/VolksempfaengerVE301dyn.htm Last edited by fsjonsey; 04-04-2011 at 11:12 PM.
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http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/169203.aspx
Early-1960's Roundie Console and a tabletop mid-1970's Magnavox in Roselle, IL. http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/169473.aspx A small set in Naperville, IL.
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04-10-2011, 07:31 PM
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Is that roundie a magnavox? I'll have to check this one out for sure.
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04-10-2011, 10:16 PM
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All the great estate sales seem to be hundreds of miles away from where I live (northeastern Ohio, near Cleveland). The small town I live in does not have that many estate sales; those I have seen here don't have TVs, stereo consoles and such. There are folks in this town who have lived here most of if not their entire lives, so I would expect that after they pass on, their relatives would have an estate sale just to get the stuff out of the way, but as of yet (I've lived here 11 years), I haven't seen any sales anywhere near comparable to the ones Doug, et al. find in Chicago. Maybe the fact that Ohio is the easternmost state of the Midwest has something to do with it? Hmmm.
 When I saw the pictures of the items for sale at both of the estate sales referenced here, I was reminded of the huge job I had as far as moving stuff went when I moved here in late 1999. I had brought perhaps 80 percent of the stuff with me that I'd had at my previous residence; since I was moving into a small apartment (one bedroom), that meant just about everything I brought here had to go. Go it did, mostly to the trash. Oh well. It will make it a lot easier if I ever have to move again; when I downsized the first time I had gotten rid of most of the stuff I knew I either would not have room for at the new apartment or would no longer have any use for. Seems to me, however, that in both estate sales shown in this thread, the houses were being cleared out 100 percent, as if the owners were moving into furnished apartments or nursing homes, or, as in my case, they were moving into an unfurnished apartment and would buy all new furniture. BTW, while I did see a '70s-vintage Magnavox 19" color TV in the photos of the Naperville estate sale, I could not find any roundies in either batch of pictures, although I did see a stereo console in one. I looked high and low several times at both sets of photos, but the early '60s Maggie roundie mentioned here was nowhere to be found. Since there were perhaps 100 photos in total (for both sales), perhaps the roundie is there, but I missed it.
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04-11-2011, 12:32 AM
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I like the Lamp on top of the Roundie, also the vintage Record Player.
I really like that dresser with the tri colored drawers in image 46!
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04-11-2011, 09:27 AM
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Image 63 of the Naperville sale is a Heathkit AA-32 amp, a really nice low power unit with 6GW8 / ECL86 outputs.
I've had two of them and they sound really good for what they are. One of them was a low mileage unit with all orig Mullard tubes that got stored away and became a mouse condo. It was very corroded but it will sing again! Sorry to get off topic!
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04-11-2011, 06:11 PM
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Although I definitely want someone to pick up these two sets, they really fit in well with the older house. There was an estate sale posting last week in central Illinois that was selling a 1974 (Gosh I already forgot, I think Zenith) TV and I thought it looked too retro to leave the 1960's house.
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I drove over and checked out the sets today on my lunch hour. The roundie is a Magnavox and is priced at $30. The table top was made in 1980 (either Aug. or Oct.) and is priced at $25. I think it is an inline gun CRT, I didn't check that closely. Just guessing by the age.
I don't have really have room for the roundie. I'd be interested in the table top if it had a wood or steel cabinet with power transformer and a delta gun. Tomorrow is half price day. The sets in general seemed to be in good shape. Hopefully somebody can give these a good home.
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