Yesterday, I went to a flea market in Vidor, TX look at another set that I received a phone call about since my story in the newspaper. I'll be damned if it wasn't another Curtis Mathes! This makes the 5th CM b&w entertainment center I've seen here locally.
While i'd love to be able to bring these sets home, I simply don't have the room for these coffin sized sets. But then, who would?
This particular set is identical to the one that Eric H has in this photo...
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...5&pagenumber=4
Many of the calls I have received so far were for sets of the 70's, which I usually do not go for. And out of those, I haven't found anything that I thought would be of any interest to you guys here.
With the majority of these sets... especially the large consoles... these folks are wanting to give them away. The man at yesterday's flea market had a hundred bucks on his CM, but after talking with him for a while, he said taking much less would be fine if he could just get rid of it because he is getting ready to re-locate. Being that he didn't really have that much knowledge of vintage sets, he said he really had no idea of what kind of price to put on it. I had explained to him that these were actually pretty common in our area.
Up until about 7 or 8 years ago, we had a big CM dealer in Beaumont that had been around for many years. I guess that's why I have seen so many of these beasties.