This link will return the current eBay auctions for Silvertone tube amps; eBay Silvertone amp search link
About the time I joined, the talk was about dem despicable 'speculationists' driving up the price of used Guilds. For whatever reasons, the prices of Silvertone amps are now doing what the price of used Guilds did last year; 'movin on up'...same w/ Gibson amps. The fact is that mid-60s Fender amps are very expensive and folks who want the vintage sound are looking someplace else; Silvertone and Gibson. Semi assembly line stuff applying WW2 manufacturing concepts, reasonably good quality under the least cost / best price concept that is, good or bad, the name of the game.
The 1482s sold last year in the mid-$200s; now routinely $325-$375. The 1484s; have gone from the mid-$400s to the high-$500s. The same price surge applies to non-'tweed', mid-60s Gibson 'crest' amps; those between the 'tweed' and the 'white-face' amps; the elephant-hide tolex, dookey little coat of arms (ya reckon that's really the Gibson family crest?) The prices are going to stay up because of the generic increase in disposable income of boomers and boomers-to-be, the increase in interest in recording amps v. 'playing out' amps, and - except for the boutique market - the supply is not being replenished.
Anyway, if any of you are thinking of taking the plunge ...
About the time I joined, the talk was about dem despicable 'speculationists' driving up the price of used Guilds. For whatever reasons, the prices of Silvertone amps are now doing what the price of used Guilds did last year; 'movin on up'...same w/ Gibson amps. The fact is that mid-60s Fender amps are very expensive and folks who want the vintage sound are looking someplace else; Silvertone and Gibson. Semi assembly line stuff applying WW2 manufacturing concepts, reasonably good quality under the least cost / best price concept that is, good or bad, the name of the game.
The 1482s sold last year in the mid-$200s; now routinely $325-$375. The 1484s; have gone from the mid-$400s to the high-$500s. The same price surge applies to non-'tweed', mid-60s Gibson 'crest' amps; those between the 'tweed' and the 'white-face' amps; the elephant-hide tolex, dookey little coat of arms (ya reckon that's really the Gibson family crest?) The prices are going to stay up because of the generic increase in disposable income of boomers and boomers-to-be, the increase in interest in recording amps v. 'playing out' amps, and - except for the boutique market - the supply is not being replenished.
Anyway, if any of you are thinking of taking the plunge ...