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In Reply to: RE: Damn 40 years of collectin posted by unclestu on July 31, 2015 at 16:15:41
Where's the pics?
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boxed instead of in plastic bags, looks much more presentable. Also had a box that got wet and mildew glued everything together....yuck!!!!!!!!! actually this only about 1/2.small tubes are double stacked
give me a day or so. I just finished boxing and rough sorting them out. And remember this is 40 years of collecting....
About 35 linear feet of wall...floor to ceiling...and then some more.
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
Actually as a dealer I would stock tubes for my customers.
I would estimate I have abut 10,000 tubes.... The stuff I was mentioning was the loose tubes and pulls , You get lazy ( or at least I get lazy)
sorting and testing....
I do know of avid collectors, including one gentle man who had well over 50,000 in his last acquisition, a chicken coop full of MARS surplus tubes. I bought a few but there ain't nothing like chicken shit well aged on the boxes.....
A recent tube enthusiast in our city pass away last year with over 100,000 tubes
Wife gave it to an auctioneer and it sold in one day.
You might want to include them in your Will or trust.....
No OCD here. I help control someone else's. Tubes and audio are my main hobbies. I'll always be looking for and buying tubes...but I know when to step away. I don't need any more stems and seeds than I already have, but they come with the bud. I've been done buying equipment for a number of years. That's being methodically unloaded month after month. The pace of tubes and parts going out the door is increasing.
My son knows what we have, how to test and how to sell. I started unloading tubes a few years ago. I have a few more years before I tap into the room where the gems are. House rule....hands off for now. One of these days the flood gates are going to open wide. Retirement.
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
50,000.... ouch. That's a bit too many to handle, but I'd deal with it.
I get overwhelmed at times, I take breaks from working on large quantities. , but eventually move forward, sorting testing, stashing, etc.
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
collecting tubes is interesting as it is in modern history.
This other guy showed me a lot of his rarities and they were fascinating.
He had early hand blown Edison tubes and different variants of other tubes which follow. They were cool and obviously hand made.
But he got me hooked. I couldn't afford those early Edison stuff. But for a while there were a lot of older tubes being sold on Ebay and I picked up quite a few. The European stuff, especially, since they are relatively rare in the US.
And there are the boxes. The packaging was cool too: Sunlight Crusader, Bluebird, etc. Colorful and beautiful. Some tubes had interesting variants: gold glass, mottled base, etc. I find them all fascinating.
Unfortunately, you don't see much of those anymore.
I hardly can match the collection of my friend, but I did start early enough to get some nice pieces, even though many are dead....
That's where I guesstimate my collection is at....10,000 and up.
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
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