Scored a rare, huge, and HEAVY DuMont.....

[Kamakiri]

Told you that Buffalo NY was DuMont country!

Good God almighty, this thing weighs more than a lawn tractor.

I'm now the proud owner of a Dumont Sherwood RA-101! The guy I bought it from rescued it from a huge garbage pile, and we loaded it in my van from the 6th floor of a theater company in downtown Buffalo. He assumed it was used as a stage prop, but there's no way someone would buy a monster like this for just that.

It's got to weigh at least 300 lb. At the very least. and FORTY FOUR tubes.

Unfortunately, it's too big for my house and will be up for sale soon. Picture tube seems to have decent emission.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/dumont_...d_ra_101a.html

From the radiomuseum website: "Several Westminster sets are known to have survived; it is unknown whether any of the other versions can still be found today. "

I assume that I have something rare and great in hand . I have NEVER seen such a well built monster outside of ETF.

These are the pics from the Craigslist listing. I'll take some better ones when I can recruit a few neighbors to help me lift it out of the van and on to furniture dollies. Complete with both backs, and is in what I'd call pretty darn nice shape!