Greetings and welcome to another listing/auction by iwheelanddeal,

11/6/2020  another price drop and not sure if another will follow in a few months.  Now $224.95

another price drop   now 249.95

priced dropped to $399.00 on 3/10/2020

price dropped to $499 on 3-1-2020

price dropped 1-17-2020 to $799.00

price dropped 2-4-2020 to $699.00

Please read entire ad and remarks at very bottom also.

Don't let the lengthy ad nor the high price scare you away.  

Here is an extra large collection of antique and vintage vacuum tubes.

I frequent a local "SECOND HAND"  vendor who has a knack for acquiring odd, old, and unique items. 

Many of the items I buy from him are items which I buy for my own use, such as tools (a vintage

transit for instance suitable for building or even surveying).

Some of the items are non-working items that I buy with the intent to repair and resell, such as pneumatic framing nailers, etc.   .  

Sometimes I inquire about an item and he makes me a good offer which I then buy on

speculation.   I have several such items in my possession that fit that category and from multiple sources.  I try to use the speculation buys to finance my purchase of items I keep for my own use.

Today I am listing a large lot of antique and vintage vacuum tubes.  I suppose about all

vacuum tubes are vintage.  I was born in the vacuum era and can still recall when hardware stores, general stores, and occasionally even a grocery store had a customer useable tube tester located atop a lockable cabinet with an assortment of the most popular vacuum tubes.

This lot is a mixture of about 175 vacuum tubes.  it may actually be bigger.  I have since found a few more tubes that I will try to add to the box prior to final packing for shipping.  The lot consists of  what appears to be NEW tubes in boxes and used tubes, not in boxes.  It is possible that some of the non-boxed tubes are new/old stock and the boxes just got damaged and tossed/lost or whatever.   There appears to be about 75 boxed tubes and I think these are new.  There appears to be about 100 tubes that are not boxed and I presume that most of these are used tubes.   There are also about 20 empty boxes but not sure any of the empty boxes will match up with the unboxed tubes.  

The bulk of these tubes are RCA but the lot includes tube(s) by Westinghouse, GTE, Sylvania, Raytheon, Cunningham, Radiotron, Long Life, Stromberg Carlson, General Electric (GE), even noticed one labeled TeleFunken Germany.

I am a former Industrial Arts teacher and fax machine technician/repairman, among other things.  I had a good tube tester years ago that I have probably long since parted with as well as one that was given to me later by an elderly friend but I have never used it and it is stored back at the farm 90 miles away.  I, therefore, have made no effort whatsoever to do any testing on any of these tubes.   I believe these likely came from the estate of a former TV/Radio repairman probably long deceased.   The fact that there is a large quantity of unboxed tubes suggests to me that when he encountered a TV or radio beyond repair, he pulled and retained the working tubes before disposing of the chassis but that is admittedly speculation on my part.  I know they were dusty when I obtained them from probably years of storage in a garage/shed, etc.  I have made minimal effort to spruce up their appearance other than to wipe some dust off.  

I spent the better part of a day doing inventory work on this batch of tubes.  I normally do not do near that much research on items I list,  but whereas sometimes a single rare vacuum tube may bring in excess of $100, ever two or three hundred, I thought it might be a good idea to just see what all I had.   There are several tubes in this lot which appear to be worth in the $20 to $40 range and some even more valuable than that.  Many of the tube numbers I ran through ebay search yielded NO SEARCH RESULTS which suggests they may be rare or hard to find tubes.   And if so, they may be quite valuable.

I have seen several Vacuum Tube Lots of 100 pieces or less go for $200 to $500 with a few even hitting the $500 to $1000.00 range.

Here are a few of those action numbers.   two2383585921four,   two8372923003one,