Rare 7" Viewtone on eBay
 

This should be interesting to watch.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Viewtone-TV-tele...item27ac31ed14

You can say that again.

John

Was it really from 1945? I thought the first post-war sets were from '46.

Most sources give 1946 as the date of introduction for the VP-100. Viewtone made prototypes earlier that looked a little different; this isn't one of them.

Ended with "reserve not met".

What the...? This was a 7 day auction, why did it end?

I've only ever seen one other... Pretty rare!

Charles

I didn't notice when it started. The bidding results says the duration was 7 days.

John

Probably because someone paid his asking price.

Jeyurkon:

Starting Price US $900.00 Oct-09-09 13:37:24 PDT

It ended nearly 6 full days short of 7 days.


Chuck: The auction hadn't even met the reserve, I wonder if it was less than his "asking price". If it were me I never would have ended it so soon with bidding like that in the first day.

I'm guessing he got an offer behind the scenes.

The set has been offered to a few collectors before, just no takers.

Price was $2500.

At that price, I'd expect it to have been electronically restored. And sellers, be sure to take a picture of a set you want to sell with it showing a video picture on its CRT. That tells us that the unobtanium parts are functional (flyback, CRT, yoke, power transformer and such.