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Post subject: What Year Amp Do I Have??????
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:34 am
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Amp = Bassman 50 Silverface

My left arm is in a cast, so I cannot get to the numbers inside the head.

I bought this amp in 1973/1974 off the showroom floor of a music store in Torrance California. I always thought it was a 1973/1974 model.

I'm discovering it may be much older than that, but how could that be??? Would an amp sit in a store for years and years?

Here is what I have on the outside of the amp:

> tube chart inside head - upper right corner: "Bassman Amp, AB165".

> back of amp, toggle switch face plate has "67" printed in lower right corner

> serial number of amp chassis is A56346

> 1/4" aluminum frame around grill cloth

> thin vertical blue lines woven into silver grill cloth

Speaker cabinet serial number is 8319, has the same 1/4" frame and the vertical blue lines in the cloth.

Any idea of what I have?

thanks.

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Post subject: Re: What Year Amp Do I Have??????
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:34 am
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Serial number information here dates the amp to 1969......

http://www.superiormusic.com/page195.htm

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