Cardboard Box filled with Old Vacuum Tubes

[billjustbill]

The box was filled with large old vacuum tubes. The soda can gives some size comparisons. Some wrapped in cheesecloth, socks, and 1975 newspaper. In a community sale, the lidless box sitting on the garage floor revealed a hint as one tube was partly unwrapped.

One was dated 1943 on the metal base, but the original owner had put a strip of old paper tape on the tube glass with the words: "A real fuse blower."

A time gone by, but as you look at them they almost seem like art work....

Bill

 

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[victhedog]

old tubes are worth big money
just sold two tube carriers full of tubes for over 1500 bucks

 

[Obsessive]

nice find. Ive seen some cool art pieces utilizing old vaccum tubes. What are you going to do with them?

 

[billjustbill]

old tubes are worth big money
just sold two tube carriers full of tubes for over 1500 bucks

What's a "tube carrier"? How many tubes did you sell?

How did your buyer find you?

Congrat's on the big dollars, too!

Bill

 

[victhedog]

Tube carrier is a box made to carry tube (what the TV repair guys used)
Sold about 75 tubes (value is what tubes you have)

I go to electronics flea markets (hamfests)

 

[billjustbill]

nice find. Ive seen some cool art pieces utilizing old vaccum tubes. What are you going to do with them?

I don't know what I'll do with them. Last year, out in an outside building at an estate sale, I found another box of smaller vacuum tubes in one building and in what was once a feeding stall, I opened what I thought was a record player. It was a tube tester....

 

[victhedog]

The tube test brings good money at sales
they become hard to find

 

[AlienLifeForm]

I pick up tubes when I can find them, which isn't too often. Nice going!

 

[Mudflap]

Those Eimac 4-400 might be worth something if they are good. Them and the 813s are transmitting tubes.


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[gowlfman]

Does anyone know of a group that would be interested in a old Ham radio (is from between 1930-1935) also have paperwork from when owner received clearance from government for it---if anyone would pm me can send pic's

Thanks

 

[gowlfman]

Ham radio--check your PM for my phone number

 

[Paleo_joe]

6L6 and 12AX7 are valuable tubes, for guitar amps. Tube testers are also good. I have never done good with tv repairman type tubes

 

[fistfulladirt]

I bought an old floor model 30's Zenith a while ago, gave away the big box of tubes that came with, aaaggghhhh!