– For your consideration is this 1961 Fender 6G5 “Pro-Amp” vintage 40-Watt 15” speaker electric guitar combo amplifier.
– This remarkable one-owner example is the nicest to be offered online in many years. Completely stock, 100% all original: every single tube, capacitor, resistor, cloth wire, and screw. Every part and component installed by Fender in early 1961 remains in place to this very day, some 63 years later.
– The tube chart date stamp is “KA” indicating a January 1961 completion date. The matched Tung-Sol 5881 power tubes are dated the last week of January ’61.
– The original Astron “Minimite” electrolytic capacitors are dated January 1960, the transformers are dated mid-late 1960, the original Jensen P15N (date stamp 220022) is mid-1960, and again, the Tung-Sol power tubes Are dated January 1961, likely installed just moments before leaving the Fullerton factory.
– While the amp is in unbelievably well-preserved condition, it is NOT mint: the original hardware exhibits oxidation, and the blue Jensen magnet bell cover displays some superficial wear: this is incredibly common as the bottom of Fender’s combo amps are famously utilized and storage. Otherwise, the pink brown Tolex cabinet, the grill cloth, are both very fine.