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:…
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’…
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…
