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Originally Posted by John Marinello
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Somebody should give this set a home. Sparton IMHO made some of the best sets of the late 40's to early 50's. I have a very similar set as this only a bit older. As a teen in the early 80's I used to go to the flea market every weekend and I would always see an older man (older to me at the time, probably 50) sitting at his table viewing what is now my TV. To people then such sets were steadily becoming junk since color sets had been easily avilable for 15 or more years. I remember always thinking back then and before that the older 50's sets that many people still had in their home were interesting. In a lot of cases the older sets had a color table model sitting on top.
At any rate the man reluctantly sold me the set for maybe $15 or so. That was about the going rate at the time. The set performs well to this day with one of the sharpest pictures and stronget reception of anything I own. There is not much of a need for an external antenna. Although it has never needed work I did take it apart once for a good dusting and discovered the extreemly well built chassis with dual rectifier tubes. To me that is at least one sign of a good set. Another top dog is Dumont which did the dual rectifiers a lot.
Sorry for the winded story but I don't see a lot of these and wanted to hopefully lead someone to save a possibly great set.
