1967 DuMont color TV estate sale find

[ceebee23]

Nice find!!!!

Now please pardon the ignorance of foreigner... but in the control panel we have "Color Fidelity"? Is this a simple white balance control or something fancier?

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by rca2000

When I saw that picture--at first I thought the same thing...there are a LOT of tv's that need saving !! Then I noticed the tile floor and realized it was Doug's basement.

BTW--I saw an early- to mid 60's Dumont roundie color set sell some time back at the ETF convention.

Originally Posted by Electronic M

That was the first ETF convention I went to, and the first auction there that I won. I owned that set for only a few minutes though...I only could haul one set home (and I badly wanted to buy a color roundy set), and wanted a certain black metal Silvertone color roundy (which they auctioned off later) more due to being an apartment dweller back then. Before I bid a nice fellow who knew I wanted the Silvertone more, but was more concerned with not returning home empty handed offered to buy the Dumont off of me if I won the Silvertone...Which I did.

So my first roundy was a Dumont...Technically.

Here's a couple of photos of that DuMont roundie at the 2009 ETF. Looks like an RCA clone.

-Steve D.

[Electronic M]

The one I was talking about was at the 2010 convention IIRC and it was a lighter cabinet with a different control layout, and IIRC a bigger tuning knob...

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

The one I was talking about was at the 2010 convention IIRC and it was a lighter cabinet with a different control layout, and IIRC a bigger tuning knob...

But other then all that. Do I get points for even posting an ETF DuMont roundie photo. Lol.

-Steve D.

[marty59]

Originally Posted by ceebee23

Nice find!!!!

Now please pardon the ignorance of foreigner... but in the control panel we have "Color Fidelity"? Is this a simple white balance control or something fancier?

The color fidelity control will alter/change the grey scale slightly. Sears had a similar control called "chromix".

[Electronic M]

@ Steve: Sure! It's actually rather surprising/cool that they had two different ones two years in a row...I was merely pointing out the differences.

@ Marty: IIRC my Airline console has a grayscale tweaking control. I think it's a switch on the back labeled Cinema or Theater or something like that.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by marty59

The color fidelity control will alter/change the grey scale slightly. Sears had a similar control called "chromix".

Magnavox had a similar switch that changed the image to sepia.

Motorola on some models had a control that went from blue shadows to sepia shadows. It was actually useful to get correct grayscale tracking because the tracking could change when replacing the single-tube chroma oscillator/demodulator.

[zenith2134]

Yes, my 1966 Magnavox color set had a Chromatone control which added sepia to the picture.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

@ Steve: Sure! It's actually rather surprising/cool that they had two different ones two years in a row...I was merely pointing out the differences.

@ Marty: IIRC my Airline console has a grayscale tweaking control. I think it's a switch on the back labeled Cinema or Theater or something like that.

Tom! Are you sure that the Airline set, you have was made by Muntz?
There was a few Wards Airlines, that were made by Hoffman.
It was the same old RCA clone, CTC15 design, that was identical to the Muntz's of the day. The part numbering system was different.
I didn't know that Hoffman was still around, let alone in Chicago. It was bought out by Admiral in the later 60's.

[Electronic M]

Not 100%. Someone here (Bgadow IIRC) had an Airline combo with and IDENTICAL looking TV section that he somehow referenced the numbers of back to Muntz...That is the only basis I have to think that...Also it has been months since I've turned that set on, longer still since I've read the manual, and ~3 years since I've seen the back so I could be WAY off base going strictly by memory.....
I could check the control labels/manual and try to pull some numbers on it later if anyone cares enough to want that.

[AUdubon5425]

Nice unusual set. Chassis looks identical to the one in my Pilot set:
http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=252810

[Fairlane500skyliner]

What an amazing find Doug! The condition of that set looks outstandingly pristine. Did it have any of the original paperwork with it?

Chris

[bgadow]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Not 100%. Someone here (Bgadow IIRC) had an Airline combo with and IDENTICAL looking TV section that he somehow referenced the numbers of back to Muntz...That is the only basis I have to think that...Also it has been months since I've turned that set on, longer still since I've read the manual, and ~3 years since I've seen the back so I could be WAY off base going strictly by memory.....
I could check the control labels/manual and try to pull some numbers on it later if anyone cares enough to want that.

My Airline has a Muntz EIA number clearly marked on the back; I never would have guessed if it weren't for that.

The DuMont I have with that chassis, still basically NOS when I got it, had some interesting bugs in it that took some time to fix. After that it became a reliable and reasonably good performer. Something I find interesting is how much trouble they went to to differentiate the DuMont from the Emerson.