What would you offer ?

[Whirled One]

Originally Posted by Tube TV

50 would be pushing the limit .

So is this a metal cabinet under a faux woodgrain finish ?

Yes. It's an all-metal cabinet painted in a simulated woodgrain. I'm pretty sure that's an RCA 9T246 (1949 model). [The last 10" round-tube RCA was the T100 (1950 model year), which was basically identical but had a plain black painted finish on the top/sides instead of the simulated woodgrain.]

Incidently, my first vintage TV was an RCA 9T246. It was in much better shape than this, but the front glass was cracked. Learned a lot from that set. It's actually a fairly "service-friendly" TV compared with some of the other 40's RCA sets (such as the 630-type sets), since the CRT is strapped to the chassis and there's plenty of room under the chassis to work. The only 'trick' is that you have to reach in to unplug the speaker (and then unbolt the speaker from the cabinet so you can reconnect it while the chassis is outside the cabinet).
Oh, by the way, I suppose these days one should probably be warned that this particular model has a big sheet of asbestos lining the inside of the cabinet top, as well as a smaller sheet on at least one side of the cabinet. Should be OK as long as you take care not to disturb it, so try to avoid scraping the chassis or other hardware against the asbestos sheets when you remove/install the chassis.

As other people have said, $50 would be about maximum for this set in that condition. I actually found a T100 at a garage sale a couple of years ago in similar condition to this TV (including the frayed speaker grille cloth), and I paid-- $0. Yes, *free*. So, I couldn't complain there...