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Originally Posted by cj_reha
I've had the same experience! The Japanese collectors are a more insular hobbyist community than any other group I've ever tried to contact or be a part of. I am acquaintances with one sympathetic collector who has helped me with some hard-to-find service data (mostly sending me physical copies in the mail), but the language barrier makes communication difficult, and he's pretty apprehensive about sending parts. One of my late friends was a prolific collector of vintage Japanese computer systems and had the same problems, with one Japanese collector telling him off for stealing their "cultural artifacts"  |
You took the words right out of my mouth.
That has historical reasons, Japan was a closen country for some hundred years!
They all speak english, but they are not in GB-forums busy!
I saw a TV report, that there are places, which are forbidden for non-japanese people.
They could share with us, showing pictures and so on, but nothing.
My friend bought me everything I wanted, bit nether wanted to thank in my name to the orignal owner.
When I wanted to know something, he had only one friend, he could ask.
He doesn't want to be a "crime" to help, that rare historical stuff leaves the country.
With his help I have now a nice japanese collection, from early sets (30s), 2 hornspeakers, early post-war.
roundies with 7" & 2 sets with 10" CRTs and some 14" and the very rare 17"/70° sets from most interesting or rare companies.
One set makes me big trouble, it is a 10" Urakawa, ultra rare, destroyed by DHL (after that, we took them no more
).
We bought the set without knobs.
Because I bought the literature, radio & TV electronic magazines, I have only one advertisement without picture of that company.
My friend was not able, to find something out.
A picture should help, to build some re-productions.
My literature contains japanese pre-war television, nice pictures, the sales literature from old TVs is nice, too, I bought what I can get, if it was from the 50s.
That gave me an overview.
Today it might be possible, to scan and translate into german/english or what ever.
My 1953/7" Toshiba is missing the lid and the knobs, but I have the sales literature for it, reproduction by the picture might be possible.
My 1954/7" Toshiba is missing its knobs too, but I was able to buy the 14" version of that year with the same knobs.
Only the decals are missing, but I have only a b/w picture, now I have a problem with the reproduction. What is the color?
O.K., btw., since 26 years I try to get the knobs for a Westinghouse H-196, I should buy a complete set, parts set, only to get them,
before I die.
Regards,
TV-collector
