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Most developmental sets I've seen are in somewhat crudely-constructed cabinets. The engineers didn't care so much about appearance. This set is in a finely-finished cabinet (and it's endured the test of time fairly well; you can still see your reflection in the cabinet!) The only odd thing is that the corners of the cabinet are cut somewhat strangely around the opening for the CRT. Was this because it was a production cabinet from a black-and-white set and they had to modify it to fit in the CRT chassis, or is this how the finish work was intended to look? We haven't found any production DuMont sets that have a cabinet that looks like this one, so it remains a mystery. Maybe the model shop went all-out and made a finely-finished custom cabinet for a developmental set for Mr. DuMont's office? In any case, it's all there. In fact, it came with a spare chassis that is very similar to the chassis in the set.

I would imagine this beautiful set was made up with a nice cabinet because
the company may have been working on developing a set for sale, they
probably knew it would be a money looser, and decided to make it look as
good as possible when they presented the prototype to those in the front
office that would be making the production decision....

Where as rca's prototypes may have been in not so pretty cabinets, they were
clearly making a major commitment to color..... Where as Dumont at the time
didn't have to commit to color, they were not an industry leader..... Although
that cabinet kicks it all over the ct100.... My opinion.... but then I've looked at
the ct100 a lot, it's just not exciting to me.... Probably just cause it's a ct100
in a different shell.... Is the insides of Dumont's own design....?
You gunna post some picts of the chassis.....? Pretty please.....?
With sugar on top....?

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