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chinaski

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Hello Marshall experts.
Can anyone help me identify this head cabinet. The person I got it from says it’s “old”.
Don’t know anything else🤷🏻‍♂️
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:welcome: to the forum.
Could be from a few different amps.
Some rough dimensions might help narrow the possibilities.
Side to side, top to bottom, distance between chassis bolt holes.
 

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Thanks!
Good to be here
I’ll take some measurements and post them as soon as I get home.
Cheers!
 

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1987 50w, or JTM45 would be my uneducated guess. 100w had top vents no? Post this in the vintage section. There are gurus over there that could identify a chassis bolt and give you the year, and I'm not kidding.
 
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Early to mid seventies. Looks like my 74 100W head but I ain't no expert.

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Definately '75 or earlier 50 watt head cab. 6" logo levant covering and small chassis holes. l' guessing '73 '74 but that is straight up a guess
 

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for a 50w chassis because it doesn't have the vent on top.
The control panel cut out appears to be for the lead, bass, or organ chassis.
No later than early 1976 since they changed the head to the bolder type then.
No earlier than 1970 because that style feet came in late 1970 or early 1971. If its a small box, then no later than 1971 since that was the last year,
 

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All good points
Need to know if smallbox vs large.
I see no vents
Mid 70s feet
Levant and small logo.
Would be useful to see pics of the internal screw heads too.
 

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Thanks for all of the replies!
70’s stands to reason given where it came from.
 

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Marshall stopped using smallboxes arround '71 and those rubber feet are later than '72. ( '71-72 has domed feet). So, I guess that's a large headshell for a 50w amp from '73-'75. In '76 they started using elephant tolex.
 

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Marshall stopped using smallboxes arround '71 and those rubber feet are later than '72. ( '71-72 has domed feet). So, I guess that's a large headshell for a 50w amp from '73-'75. In '76 they started using elephant tolex.
Those feet pictured are the regular feet that became standard, first appearing in 1971 and used to present day. 1971 was also the last year of the small box. Since its hard to tell from the photos if this is a small box or large box, good deductive reasoning says this amp couldn't be earlier than 1971, but could be as late as 1976 when the last of the levant tolexed heads were used up. With the OP's single question post and no responses since, chances are that they have either passed on a sale or sold it on already, and we won't hear from them ever again...
 
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