Notice the picture with all the guys on the plank and the admiral below , that set is not a double D screen , anyone ever see one that was not a Double D ?

Good eye. They obviously replaced the mask with something that wouldn't snap with the weight. That was likely the first thing to go when the cabinet flexed with all that weight. That model either had the two-piece white mask, or the one-piece reverse painted gold mask. Both double-D.

The wood cabinet version sold with a rectangular screen mask in 1948... I suspect that there were both rectangular and double-D versions during the engineering phase of the bakelite model, and they (wisely, IMHO) decided to sell the model with the double-D. :scratch2:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1948-Admiral-30A16-10in.JPG


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That's true. Could be a pre-production mask. The rectangle mask looks great on the wood sets, but the double-D looks better on the bakelite model.