The response I got from the seller: Dear m**r3695,
Thank you. We got it from a passed away collector. We will changing the description. - appleibmlaseresearch Click "respond" to reply through Messages, or go to your email to reply From: m**r3695 To: appleibmlaseresearch Subject: Other: m**r3695 sent a message about 2x Burroughs B-7971 B7971 Nixie Tube Vintage Rare NOS #280702018540 Sent Date: Jun-25-11 22:38:21 PDT Dear appleibmlaseresearch, Hi There, Curious how you account for those burn marks on your "NOS" B7971 tubes? - m**r3695 On Jun 26, 10:53 pm, "A.J. Franzman" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 26, 4:58 pm, Dmitri Vorobiev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It looks like the boxes aren't matching the nixies. To my > > understanding, what was once in those boxes are the 6004 tubes: > > >http://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6004.html > > > Like some other people in this email thread, I'm not buying the NOS > > status claimed in the auction. The seller, judging by the other items > > and selling history, isn't a vacuum tube or nixie expert, so he > > probably can't tell if the box matches the contents. > > I agree, those are not correct boxes for the tubes. From additional > anomalies already mentioned in some of the other comments here, the > tubes are definitely not NOS either. > > The only original packaging I've ever seen (that I can remember) that > is appropriate to B-7971 tubes is the styrofoam bulk trays. I would > love to be proven wrong if someone here has a retail box or military- > style plain brown or white box with the correct markings. I have seen > NASA mission control film with console displays that could be 7971 > tubes, so that is one possible customer for quantities less than a > full bulk tray, probably in mil-boxes. > > A.J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
