A student just brought in his "like new" 196 Silvertone 1483 head

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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This is a SUPER clean amp. It was recently retubed with NOS SILVERTONE tubes...I didn't realize there were any still available. At first I thought they might be some sort of JJ or Ruby tube made with NOS bases or something silly like that but it looks like they might actually have been made by RCA: http://www.vintageamps.com/plexiboard/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=83905

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Cool! :thu:

To answer your unspoken question - Sivertone did not make tubes. Silvertone, was a brandname Sears used to sell things in their catalog. Most Silvertone amps (like the 50s and 60s Sivertone guitars) were made by Danelectro. The Silvertone tubes are probably rebadged GE, RCA, Phillips, etc. There have never been more than a few tube manufacters at any one time. Even nowadays, when you buy a Mesa, Groove, Ruby tube, etc., they are just rebadeged tubes, made in one of the few overseas tube manurfacturing facilities that's left.
 
ellengtrgrl said:
Cool! :thu:

To answer your unspoken question - Sivertone did not make tubes. Silvertone, was a brandname Sears used to sell things in their catalog. Most Silvertone amps (like the 50s and 60s Sivertone guitars) were made by Danelectro. The Silvertone tubes are probably rebadged GE, RCA, Phillips, etc. There have never been more than a few tube manufacters at any one time. Even nowadays, when you buy a Mesa, Groove, Ruby tube, etc., they are just rebadeged tubes, made in one of the few overseas tube manurfacturing facilities that's left.
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Thats pretty much what I thought...I've owned a few Silvertone amps and I know about them and Airline for Montgomery Wards but I couldn't get my head around the idea that someone had brand spankin' new Silvertone 6L6's laying around....
 
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