Kuba Komet on Ebay

[Josef]

http://www.ebay.at/itm/ws/eBayISAPI....:B:WNA:AT:1123

Greetings and a happy new year!

[decojoe67]

It's one of those love-it-or-hate-it sets. I personally love it! One of the coolest and widest sets ever made in my opinion. "Atomic Age", "Mid-Century", "Jetsons" - it's hard to narrow down how to describe it, but it just screams "'50's!"

[Sandy G]

I dunno...If I had one, I'd likely come home Loaded one night, get into a Fight w/it, trip, & end up impailin' myself on one of the sails...

[ggregg]

now that's funny......

It will be interesting to see what it sells for, if it sells. That is one of the most awesome pieces of electronic marvel ever made, anytime, by anybody.

[Sandy G]

Hmmmmm...That DOES NOT look like the "Original" CRT that was installed in the ones I've seen...They are more "rounded" in the style of the late Fifties/early Sixties....That CRT ALMOST looks like a later "Color" CRT...

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

..That DOES NOT look like the "Original" CRT ...That CRT ALMOST looks like a later "Color" CRT...

In one of the pictures at that auction, you can see that the CRT doesn't fit the bezel. Surely a BPC set sitting there.

[Phil Nelson]

You could always email the seller and ask.

The ETF Komet page has a few photos for comparison.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/kuba.html

Phil Nelson

[StellarTV]

Gorgeous. It's funny how so many of those German radios from that period all look essentially the same with the two large knobs and the 'piano key' style selectors, regardless of manufacturer.... Grundig, Braun, Telefunken, etc, but Imperial is a new one on me. There are others too of minor manufacture with the same layout whose names I can't recall at the moment.

[Eric H]

They were produced from 1957 to 1962 so I would guess this is a later one with a bigger squarer CRT?

I think whether it's attractive or not depends a lot on the Home it's in.

In the typical 1500-1800 sq foot American Ranch Style house of the late fifties it would look out of place, OTOH if you happened to live in a small Mansion with a late 50's Modernist design then it would look pretty good.

I Think the bottom half of one would make a dandy stand for a Flat Screen!

[Down Under]

We wants it! We wants it!
We will put it into our pocketses!
It would become our new preciousssss.....

[Dangler]

Dieses Angebot wurde beendet.

The seller ended the auction early.

Gutentag!

[Sandy G]

1957-62 ? They MIGHT have done better here in the States if they'd put a Roundie color set in it...I dunno if they even tried to sell 'em here...The market would have been, I think, EXTREMELY limited...And while it woulda been "The Bee's Knees" in 1959, by '65 or so, it would have been as out-of-place looking as a '59 Caddy was, w/its rocketship fins 'n' all., & the tastes had become a BIT more "Sober".

[Reece]

The piece on the Early Television site is in error. It states that an option was a magnetophon wire recorder. Wire recorders were around for only a few years at the end of the war and very early fifties, quickly supplanted by tape recorders, and the Kuba Komet was produced from '57 to '62. Magnetophon in German refers also to tape recorders. The optional magnetophon available for the Kuba Komet is listed as a Telefunken 75-T, which is clearly a 1/4" tape recorder as shown here.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/telefun...?language_id=2

[Josef]

This set is original in my opinion. Kuba advertised the TV chassis with following words: 4 diodes, 22 tubes, printed circuit board.
Here you can see a working TV with a rectangular CRT from a museum:

http://www.radiomuseum-remseck.de/de...ges/komet2.jpg

The seller also didn't stop the auction before it's planned ending. I forgot to post the link earlier, what does not matter because the set was not sold
I'm sure it will be offered for a lower price soon.

Greetings

[Phil Nelson]

Yes, I believe that Komets originally had rectangular CRTs, like most B/W TVs of their time. The first time I saw the ETF's set, it had been recently acquired and was still disassembled, showing a rectangular CRT.

In one of the eBay photos, you can see that the CRT is pushed back somewhat from the mask. Whether that's the original CRT or something else, I couldn't guess from such a partial view.

Phil Nelson