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Just saw this turn up on Gumtree - centre of England location: https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-guitar-accessories/1967-marshall-1983-pinstripe-columns-with-original-celestion-20w-speakers/1432982143 G12M 20W speakers and still with the logos. I'd snaffle these myself, but I already have some.

Indeed - there's no guitar input on the front panel, it's tucked around the back - along with footswitch and tube-buffered Send and Return sockets. Those four jack sockets are the ones right by the 6 preamp valves - it's all a bit tightly packed!

I don't know the full story. I bought it when it had already been modified. The owner told me that it was one of a few Marshall that PD modded on the way to developing the VH4/etc high-gain monsters we know now. (Don't have clips yet - will post some as/when it's all working again.)

Some time ago, I bought a mid-1970s Marshall that had been modified by Peter Diezel. It's a ... 'significant' ... mod: It looks like two extra preamp valves, but there's also a third one just behind the blue cap. It went 'pop' a few months ago and I put it on one side to dig into when I...

Thanks all. So "1970s" is the best guess. I had a look at the Marshall database and the info there doesn't go into the detail, and I couldn't find any linked photos from that page. I have definitely had/seen the other types (ribbing, plain) but this was a surprise.

Any vintage geeks know which era of Marshall had the impedance selector with 'MARSHALL' stamped on? Like this: It's left over from my various now-sold amps (none earlier than 1971, as far as I recall), and before putting it in the Classifieds, it would be useful to know which Marshalls it...

NOW SOLD

No thanks - I'm sorting out my speaker cabs and adding a switching thingy to make it easier to swap things around. I don't have a cab to put them (or these) in.

The same must apply to the speakers in all of those mega-$ Bluesbreaker combos, AC30s, etc?

Bump and price drop: £200 shipped for the pair (mainland UK)

Agreed - the OD does look out of place. Just get a mustard with text in either direction and restore it. Replacing it properly means lifting the board, though. One of those jobs I've done once and decided once was enough. :cool: :run:

And, just for comparison, here's my '67 JMP 50W innards, also a 102nn serial number: Mild maintenance mods.

Interesting. I never kept notes about the codes of those caps I salvaged from the Dureux organ. That was French, so may well have had other codes. These days, I'm still not that bothered about codes - just appearance and values.

^ What he said. It's a shame that the two signal caps are swapped to Sozo, but it would be a simple resto project for anyone who did need it 100% vintage correct. I'd enjoy it as it is. :)

Yup - a '67 with a serial number around 10,200 or so. In fact, it looks like the identical twin to my plexi. I had to check the shelves just in case it'd gone missing! :facepalm:

Well, I think the clue to "why $30?" is in your own post: you've hoarded 1000 of them. :facepalm: That makes them scarce and that pushes up the price of all of the others. :nono: :) I collected them for a while, too. But eventually I realised I had many times more mustard caps than I would ever...

I think it's more likely that the PCB-mounted ones are the later ones, with the text running along the capacitor's body. The earlier ones have the text printed cylindrically around the body. I've had hundreds of these from '60s hand-wired amps and organs, and all were cylindrically printed...

The 'problem' (YMMV) with this guitar is more about nationalism than racism. Many Japanese people are uncomfortable with stuff that brings up WW2, whereas others - particularly older Japanese men - believe that nationalism and the honouring of war criminals is the right thing to do. Most of us...

You're in luck - I just found it. Exactly as pictured above (without the mounting screws). Will PM you in a moment.

OK. It'll be at work in The Big Box of Bits, so I'll check it tomorrow. I know I've got a few Marshall spares in there (Bulgin, etc), and I don't recall using it or its mains selector twin. (If I forget, don't feel too shy to pester me by PM! I get back to work tomorrow and there's a bit of a...