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Honey hush......best find in all my days of searching. Still a few home runs out there left to find.
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I am not aware of Mullard EL34 with a metal base. The xf1 have the thick plastic base, while the latter series have the thinner brown base.
Is there an etched code on the glass? What shape and number of the getters? Fabulous score, just trying to figure out what you got.
Well now you are. These are the original earliest design of the EL34 with metal bases and foil disk getters. These came before the xF1 tubes and have the codes stamped in the metal and not acid etched into the glass like later tubes had
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Hi Permanent Waves.
Again awesome score. I have done some research and I believe those tubes are actually Phillips made in Holland branded Mullard. I do not believe Mullard actually ever made a metal base EL34. See below information found on Tube Classic audio site. Are you tubes the same as the picture? Some of the rarest and most wanted EL34s ever made!
Philips owned Mullard so its all the same at the end of the day on who made them. Yes they were made in the Phillips Holland factory and not the Blackburn Mullard factory. Most of these metal base ones you find have either Mullard or Bugle boy labels although the labels are rarely intact and still present. Sometimes you see them labeled mini watt. These are not the 2 piece getters which were mainly the prototype versions of the very first runs of these tubes. Mine are single disk getters but still extremely rare and unicorn to be found in this condition
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Around 12 years ago I saw an ad on Audiogon or Audiomart, can't remember which, for a box of miscellaneous tubes for $250. The ad was written so poorly it was impossible to understand what was in the box but there were a few hints and I was feeling lucky.
When it arrived there were more than 30 tubes. The most interesting were four Ei KT90 Type 2s in white boxes and fourteen RFT/Siemens El34s in Realistic boxes. The rest were an odd assortment of 810 tubes and various small signal tubes. At the time I didn't realize how valuable the Ei tubes were and sold them for what I'd paid for the whole box, along with all the other tubes I had no use for. I had the El34s tested at Audio Connection in Seattle and all were in excellent condition. I included four of them in an amp I sold but still have six, but no amp to use them in. If I'd been more knowledgeable about tubes at the time and prescient about their potential value I would have rented a safe-deposit box and held onto them.
I do not know what you paid for those Mullards, but the find is insane.
that you can share without giving away trade secrets, etc? How does one go tube hunting?? - here in ATL, that field has long been barren, I'd imagine.
Wow, these should be early EL 34's. Is there a date code on the metal base? Enjoy them.
These are all SYI/56K coded
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Edits: 10/05/21
Me? I can't even find a four leaf clover....
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