misprint nixie tubes!

[SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.]

Some of you may know about postal stamps that have small printing errors - these are usually very rare and worth a fortune - not sure if that counts for nixies too! ;)

However, a few days ago i aquired some 1970 0009 from National Electronics from ebay, they were stated as "misprint". And yes, NATIONAL ELECTRONICS is printed as NATIONAL ELECSRONICS.

I do think this is a real production error, not an made up fake or so, since the tubes were cheap (not selled extra expensive because the misprint) and the color and printing looks very authentic to other NL tubes i own. My best guess is that the used some kind of machine-stamp that can be set to different positions (like the stamps you can use for stamping a date today, and rotate the the wheel to get tomorrows date). The T from Electronics became a S, so i guess the position was accidentally set to S instead of T...


See attached images for those who are interested.

[Instrument Resources of America]

Chinese spelling!!!  LOL  Ira.

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[mjrippe]

Reminds me of some Chinese 6550 power tubes we came across at a vintage hi-fi place I worked at.  They were labeled "MADE IN CHIAN"!

[jb-electronics]

Nice find, Jonathan! :)

Jens