Cheap Dumont on eBay

[Eric H]

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[andy]

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[Cory]

Boy, I'd love to have this set....too bad it's on the east coast. Seems us midwesterners are usually out of luck

[Sandy G]

I'd love to have it, too. $50 ain't bad; but who's got the time to run up to Noo Yawk ? -Sandy G.

Bring cash up to Yonkers? Better to go there while daylight and packing some heat

Whatever happened to Dumont? Did they go out of business or get bought up and merged with someone else?

Anthony

[bgadow]

There is something about the style of that set that would be right at home in the mid-30s. Too far for me, too.

DuMont got hooked up with Emerson, in the 50s I think. I don't know all the details. I have in the pile a factory service manual for a 70s DuMont stereo & it says something like "a proud tradition since 1952" or some such, so I guess about '52 it got sold. (strange that they wouldn't try to latch on to the even older history of the company) The 6CB5 that went to air in my CTC-5 was a NOS DuMont tube which had a '67 date and an EIA code that came back to Emerson. Also seems like I saw a reference showing DuMont & Capehart related in later years. I know that in the late 60s/early 70s, at least, Emerson was part of National Union but the history from there I've never seen. Emerson seems to still be an American company, just in the sales business (they don't make anything) but I don't know if they own other nameplates. Some have mentioned seeing new DuMont branded sets in recent years, maybe at Montgomery Wards. The newest one I saw was maybe early to mid 80s, a 25" table model with click-stop tuners but a fairly modern look.

[bgadow]

Came across this today, well done with a little information about the tv manufacturing business at DuMont:

http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumont.htm

Thanks for the history info guys, that was grrreeeeaaatttt! (Tony the Tiger voice)

Anthony