Anyone have a MUNTZ?

Wow, what an ambitious project! Some of those sets are undoubtedly quite rare by now. I know of at least one set which is not on his list; a Sparton set which had the 23V5 chassis, which I played with as a kid in the early 60s (it took me 35 years to identify it!)

Evidently it was a 1955 model. which was not covered in the regular Sams Photofacts; they reprinted the schematic in set 309. I have never seen another one.

[dsk]

I know of a Muntz for sale. Blond wood, cabinet looks quite nice. I know nothing about TV's so that's about all I can tell you. It's like a wooden cube, a table top model, very roundish picture tube. Cabinet dimensions are roughly (very rough) 26" on each side, maybe more.

[Big Dave]

Any other info available? I might be interested.

[dsk]

Well, you're here in Central Ohio, so go check it out. It's at the Delaware Antique Mall, which is on Sandusky Street in Delaware (East side of the street). No affiliation with the seller. There were a couple other nice looking roundish tube TVs in there as well.

[Steve McVoy]

Here is the Muntz that was in Delaware. I picked it up for the museum, since we didn't have a Muntz. It is a 1950 model - must have been one of the first 17 inch rectangular sets made. You could always get a big screen set for very little money from Muntz.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/muntz_17a3a.html

[dsk]

Glad it found a good home.

[Big Dave]

Steve,

Did they have anything else of interest?

[Steve McVoy]

A very nice RCA console with doors, about 1949, and a early 60s RCA color set (table model on legs) in working condition.

[prewtv]

Still looking for a 10 tube model.
If you did what MUNTZ did you can get it down to 8 tubes
using solid state for 1B3 and the damper. Muntz had done this
to ratio det in sound, power supply and video det.