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Re: Please help you identify this sylvania tube?

Great tube. One of the very best 5751s. The square/rectangular getter indicates that this is the earlier type of Sylvania 3-mica, gray plate 5751, probably dating to the late 1950s. These early ones also have two crimps in the plates per triode section, while the later types have o-getters and three crimps in the plates per triode section. All of these were preceded by the black plate types. I prefer the gray plates just a tad over the black plates. (Right now the GE 3-mica, D-getter blackplate 5751 is the best 5751 for my current system, but there're a lot of good 5751s)

Price? Free is usually ideal, but barring that they can easily bring $35USD to even $80USD each.

- SJ


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