Quick links to the models mentioned on this page: Celestion Greenback Speakers – An Overview Ceramic speakers (aka ‘greenbacks’) first appear around late 1964 to early 1965. They have a slightly more aggressive tone compared…
Celestion occasionally printed their date codes with the month and year back to front by mistake. Eg ‘HA2’ instead of ‘AH2’ for 2nd Jan 1975. A simple typo but it can be very misleading. Year…
It is possible to date a vintage greenback with some accuracy, without looking at the date code at all. Year by year Celestion made small visible changes to their speakers. The most obvious ones are:…
How To Date Your Speaker All Celestion date codes contain a pair of letters. These represent the month and year of manufacture. A number directly next to the pair of letters, if present, is the…
Guitarists often go to great lengths and expense in their quest for the ultimate guitar tone. Yet speakers all too often get overlooked. So long as they make a noise they are good right? Actually,…
The vintage gear market can be a daunting place, with seemingly lots of dis-honest sellers out there looking to rip people off. In this blog post I will be going over a few basic pointers…
The Celestion greenback 20 watt G12M and 25 watt G12H are some of the most sought after pre-rola speakers. However it is easy to be fooled by the labels on these speakers, everything is not…
Quick links to the models mentioned on this page: Celestion Alnico Speakers – An Overview Alnico’s are easily the most collectable vintage Celestion speakers, and can be found in ‘holy grail’ amplifiers and speaker cabinets…
Tone Is In The Cone Over the years Celestion have used various cones from different suppliers, all slightly different in tone. Celestion have never really given any information out about their suppliers. Therefore a lot…
Pre-rola greenbacks are considered to be some of the best sounding guitar speakers ever made. They are highly collectable due to their association with 1960’s amplifiers, notably Marshall, and the guitar legends that used them…
Unfortunately there is a lot of fake and ‘lashed-up’ vintage gear floating around on the used market. Most of which can be traced back to one notorious dealer in UK. In this blog post I…
All Celestion speakers have a model number denoting their specification, usually beginning with the letter T. This apparently represents the word ‘type’. Speakers with the ‘CT’ and ‘RT’ prefix are said to represent ‘Rola type’…
Celestion has been an iconic brand for guitarists since the 1960’s. However their roots go much deeper than this, starting back in the 1920’s with early radio speakers. The following text detailing Celestion History has…
Very little seems to be known about the very early Celestion and Rola G12 speakers from the 1940’s and 1950’s such as the Rola / Celestion B025, the P74 and P44. Examples do turn up…
