How about a DuMont?

[Kamakiri]

Oh yes it's garbage night, and the feeling's right.....oh yes it's garbage night, oh what a night! :D

This DuMont is stone mint, and working! Also scored a perfectly mint 1977 Sony Trinitron color portable that I gave to my neighbor that helped me with getting this home from a block away.

[Kamakiri]

Close up of the controls

[Eric H]

Wow, that is so cool!
Is that a tube set? got to be close to the end of Dumont I would think.

[Rob]

Tim,

You have to stop posting your curbside finds. ;)

That is one pretty set. If you decide you cannot provide a home for it, and if it was the right size to accomodate my heathkit GR-53 color set with the 21" round tube I am looking for a nice cabinet for that. I wouldn't have any guilt about gutting a rectangular B&W set for the cabinet. :)

Rob

[Kamakiri]

Originally posted by Eric H
Wow, that is so cool!
Is that a tube set? got to be close to the end of Dumont I would think.

Yup, lots o'tubes from what I saw in a casual look inside the back :)

I'll play around with it more when I get back from a small family vacation. See you when we get back!

By the way Rob, this is a COLOR set! :D

[Rob]

Tim,

I guess you'll want to keep it then eh? Nice score.

Rob

[kc8adu]

that is a rare one.
i wonder whos chassis is inside.got a pic?
i dont recall seeing any dumont tube color sets in my years of servicing old tv's.
i remember a dumont ss color that was an admiral though.

[wvsaz]

That set was supplied by Emerson Radio & TV Corp. The Allen B. DuMont Labs sold their TV set manufacturing division to Emerson in 1958, along with the rights to use the DuMont name and logo. The DuMont branded sets supplied from that point on were designed and manufactured by Emerson. These were of inferior quality to what DuMont had built.

Emerson had the distinction of having the only TV set rejected for being unsafe to use by Consumer Reports in 1959. This was a B&W table model on legs, and carried the DuMont name. It was a series filament, hot chassis set and the chassis mounting bolts were exposed on the cabinet bottom, and were live with AC. CU rejected the set as unsafe and did not test it further.

The only color sets ever sold by Allen B. DuMont Labs were 21" round tube models using an RCA chassis. See one here:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/21inchcolor.html

Later DuMont branded round color sets supplied by Emerson in 1960 appear to have an RCA chassis. The rectangular model pictured above appears to be mid-sixties vintage.

[captainmoody]

I Have a Dumont "colorado" 19" portable color from 1967, It is a cheaply made set, Although the only one I have ever seen in all the time that I have been servicing tv's.
I haven't done anything with it in the 20 odd years that I have had it, Still works great but is missing the back.
When I found it "picking" as a teenager it was obvious that it was not the usual Dumont quality, My boss at the shop told me that they sold out years before and then told me the emerson story.
Maybe someday I will find a back for it.....

[Kamakiri]

Here's the chassis.....

[Kamakiri]

The warranty registration. Good to have in case I hafta get it worked on :rolleyes: :D

[rca2000]

The chassis in that set looks like a n emerson,so i think you have an emerson there.

Good score. I don't see too many good sets in the garbage nowdays, just modern junk, and that is not worth picking up anymore.

[Kamakiri]

Well, we know the picture tube is good.... :D

[Kamakiri]

Screen shot #2, the convergence is just a tad out

[robatino]

Sorry for the late response, but I don't see the images referred to in this thread. Do they expire after a certain time? I'm looking for pictures of DuMont-branded color TVs from the late 60s/early 70s as we used to have one from that era and I could would only be able to recognize it that way. It was roughly 19", all tubes, with a plastic or metal case and a swivel handle on the top.

[Celt]

Four years and many servers ago... Yep, lots of pics lost since then.

[blue_lateral]

A long time ago there was a server crash, and the picture database was lost. None of these really old threads have pictures, unless people have gone back and reposted them. :(

John