[Milsurplus] Golden Years of Collecting

[Ralph Cameron]

I find the best collectibles re those that show up unexpectedly. A 
friend was once cleaning out his father's garage and gave me a basket of 
tubes, barely recognizable under sawdust and dust.Upon inspection one 
"tube" caught my eye and looked like a movie projection bulb. I vowed to 
keep it until I identified it. Upon browsing the Marconi museum website, 
I stumbled across a picture of it- a Fleming valve, type 2. Its 
provenance is proven but the filament is gone. Still have it and will 
end up donating it to a worthy museum.

Those surprises, among others are worth carefully sorting "junk".

Ralph
VE3BBM