Nostalgia time

Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.

Take the dog before you email me.

In article ,
says...

Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.

Take the dog before you email me.

Oh wow!

Pity I don't have time to look through all of them now (I've already
been through quite a lot!)

Lot 596 must definitely appeal to Bill - especially as they are in
virgin condition!

I wonder if the Bush TV53 is in working order ...

.... or the PYE V4 ...

.... or any of them, for that matter ...

.... what memories - and, if the pictures are to be believed, in
immaculate condition!

--

Terry

Maybe there is hope then for my room full of old 1980s o 8 bit computers
after all...
Brian

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"Terry Casey" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...

Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.

Take the dog before you email me.

Oh wow!

Pity I don't have time to look through all of them now (I've already
been through quite a lot!)

Lot 596 must definitely appeal to Bill - especially as they are in
virgin condition!

I wonder if the Bush TV53 is in working order ...

... or the PYE V4 ...

... or any of them, for that matter ...

... what memories - and, if the pictures are to be believed, in
immaculate condition!

--

Terry

Brian Gaff wrote:
Maybe there is hope then for my room full of old 1980s o 8 bit
computers after all...

Possibly - in another 50 years ... ;-)

André Coutanche

wrote in message
...
Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.

This makes me realise that the 405-line aerials I have in my loft, which are
still in the manufacturers' boxes, might be worth something.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:


wrote in message
.. .
Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.

Sale 17616
The Michael Bennett-Levy Early Technology Sale, 30 Sep 2009

This makes me realise that the 405-line aerials I have in my loft, which are
still in the manufacturers' boxes, might be worth something.

Take a look at lot 596

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...eSectionN o=1

or http://tinyurl.com/m8xwc5

Television roof-top aerials
late 1940s onwards,
including an H-form; two X-forms from Belling-Lee; two track-forms;
and some smaller set-top versions (qty)

Footnote:
M.B-L comments: "Any comprehensive television collection in my
opinion, should have examples of the first television aerials, the 'H'
and the 'X' but finding good clean examples was very difficult. There
was no shortage of surviving examples in the 1990s, I could see them
still attached to chimneys all over the UK, but after fifty years of
exposure to the elements they were all corroded. What I needed was an
'H' and an 'X' that had never been mounted outside, but finding them
was challenging. In the end I finally located both through a retired
television engineer who knew a house where they were sitting in an
attic. I am not suggesting that they are of any great value per se,
but they are important artefacts from the early days of television and
should be preserved. The other aerials 'just turned up'. The one on
the brown Bakelite base is an internal aerial for a Bush type 22."
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:34:23 +0100, wrote:

Especially for Bill.
Have a look at an auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge at the end of
this month. www.bonhams.com and look for sale 17616 on 30 September.
Jump to lot 570 and scroll on.

I'm impressed that many of them are wireless, pretty good for the
1950s.
;-)
- Mike