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…
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…
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…
