Vintage Audio Tubes, Vacuum Tubes or Valves
This is the Premier Marketplace for Old, Vintage, Collectible, Rare and Obsolete Vacuum Tubes, tube sockets and tube parts. Our vast inventory of tubes changes daily so check back often. Be sure to book mark this page so you don't miss any great deals.
Vacuum Tubes or Valves are still being manufactured today in China, Russia and several former Eastern Block nations. Avid collectors and Audiophiles prefer the original vintage tubes over the new issue or so called replacement tubes of today and they bring in a premium in today's marketplace.
Vacuum Tube types have changed over the years. The very oldest tubes looked more like light bulbs and had a screw type base. Most 1920s tubes had glass envelopes and large bakelite bases with four or five pins. Tubes from the 1930s and 1940s typically had glass or metal envelopes and six, seven, or eight pins. A Locking metal base was used on tubes in the late 1940s, they were called "loktal". Locktal and Octal tubes were superseded in the 1950s by all-glass "miniature" tubes with very thin pins. Keep in mind that different tube types overlapped. For example, some radios continued to use oktal or older tube types into the 1950's.
5963 12AU7 Sleeve NIB NO Reserve |
7 | $14.50 | 15m | |
NIB SYLVANIA 5AR4GZ34 ELECTRONIC TUBE |
7 | $24.39 | 20m | |
4 NIB AMPEREX 12AX3 COMPACTRON TUBE |
- | $9.99 | 20m | |
2 AMPEREX 12 A X 4 GTB TUBES |
- | $9.99 | 20m | |
Two NOS Tungsram 12AT7 |
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$10.00 $30.00 |
25m | |
12AT7 Pair Sylvania 3-Mica Tested NOS NR |
2 | $5.24 | 26m | |
Matched Pair GE 6GK5 6FQ5A Vacuum Tubes Tested New |
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$13.00 | 28m | |
Pair of Vintage TUNG-SOL Solid Black Plates 6550 Tubes |
13 | $331.56 | 28m | |
Rare Vintage TUNG-SOL Tungsol Solid Black Plates 6550 |
7 | $104.06 | 28m | |
5U4M 5Z4 5Z4G CV1863 5C4M - 4 NEW NOS TUBES |
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$10.00 | 29m | |
5687 Matched Pair GE O-Getter BP NOS No Reserve |
7 | $6.49 | 31m | |
4 vtg SYLVANIA 12BH7 HALO GETTER MATCHED QUAD McIntosh! |
4 | $22.50 | 36m | |
2 RCA 1625 Tubes VT-136 Ham Radio |
1 | $3.99 | 36m | |
5687 Matched Pair 1954 Tung-Sol BP D-Getter NOS NR |
6 | $32.00 | 38m | |
Pair Vintage TUNG-SOL Tungsol Solid Black Plates 6550, s |
10 | $300.00 | 38m |
