Great to hear you saved it. That TV is listed in Sams Photofacts set 134 folder 9. Dated May 1951. The repair folder lists 12 models but shows a 17 inch tube tabletop on a matching stand. Some are consoles with radios and record players. What kind do you have. Hard to say about the rarity but not one of the more desireable sets. Most collecters go for the small tabletop sets. But something like this is nice because once fixed up it is watchable with the larger screen. As everybody here will tell you most likely the capacitors need to be changed.

Paul