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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. It is one of the first televisions produced in the UK by
"His Master's Voice". Gift made in the 30s
from Guglielmo Marconi to a well-known "Italian politician".
Naturally at the time television broadcasts were only of an experimental nature.
Note the round cathode ray tube, which will be produced later
in rectangular format.
Dimensions: height 100 cm., depth 58 cm. and width 45 cm.
Screen size: 22 X 18cm.
Naturally the device is not functional.
The shipping costs are not real, they are set only to be able to continue the description and start the entry into the auction.
We will deliver the item in person to our home.
References: Michael Bennett-Levy (1993) Historic Televisions and VCRs.
Michael Bennett-Levy (1994) TV is king. 67355985
