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:…
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…
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…
