Old TV set to fetch $10k

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Britain's oldest working television set, manufactured by Marconi in 1936, is expected to fetch more than £5000 ($10,490) at auction. It was bought for almost £100 (over half the annual average wage of the day) three weeks after TV transmissions began. But Mr G.B. Davis of Dulwich, southeast London, would have only been able to watch it for a few hours. The nearby Crystal Palace and its transmitter burned down three days later and the area could not receive pictures again until 1946. (Source: The Telegraph.co.uk)