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Originally Posted by M3-SRT8
As you can see from the pics, that Royal Sovereign is in primo shape. It came that way. It used to be owned by a VP of Sprague in the 50's. His grandson sent it to me.  |
I think that DuMont products were primarily targeted at the wealthy for a couple of reasons, but the main one being the retail price they commanded. Of couse most people here know that the quality was SUPERB! I once owned an RA109-A that even back in the early 80's when I found it providing a home for mice in a dirt floored out-building of an antique/junk store owned ironically by the man who had sold the set brand new and knew it's complete history. How cool was that? He told me about the day it came off of the truck and was sold to the then president of Stanley Furniture Company which at the time was a BIG deal. It along with Bassett Furniture are two primary reasons that my county was once well populated. Now it is like a sad, ghostly, bunch of once mighty factories, now empty and falling apart, that at least provided some type of employment for the masses. Now there is nothing but "can I help you" service industry jobs for people.
Anyway, supposedly this man paid around a grand for the DuMont back then, which was like buying a car. I wish I could have kept it, but with room always haunting me in my modest abode, I had to let it go to a boiler maker in Richmond. I always wondered if he got it going. I am pretty sure that the 19AP4 was weak because it had a booster on it.