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how on earth can you tell the cloth is original?
a while ago there was a showman on a local site, complete set, an
(almost) all original black/silver from '61.
the story that went with it was the amp was imported from the US and
immediatly retolexed to black/silver specs by the importing retailer,
appearantly because by the time it arrived here, blonde amps
were 'old', and in black the seller could get better money.
It went for more than I could afford, but not a bad price, something
like E1200 I think.
WR
--- In , "ipongrac" <ipongrac@g...>
wrote:
>
> Has anyone noticed that some blackface Showman heads (so
roughly '64'-
> '67) have black grille cloth on the front rather than the customary
> silver sparkle? For example, there's a Showman head on eBay (the
> auction ended on Saturday) like that:
>
>
> Amp_W0QQitemZ7370080869QQcategoryZ38074QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> I know that John Blair also has a head like that, and both of these
> appear completely stock. I've seen a few more 'black-fronts' on
eBay
> through the years. My hunch is that these heads date from
around '67,
> but I can't find any info about them either in the Fender Amps book
or
> on the net. Anybody know anything about them?
>
> Just curious.
> Ivan
>
