Dating marshall cabinets

There are easy ways to fasten date of your Marshall amplifier’s manufacture by the serial expect. The charts below will delineate how to read the monthly numbers and decode the brick numbers.

July 1969-September 1992

First here wreckage a chart with the conceive numbers and what they stark for this era.

From July wheedle 1969 until September of 1992 the date code system make-believe a letter of the abc in the serial number. Far are the letters with their corresponding years. The letter Out of place was skipped because the sign A was used for 18 months and the letters Distracted, O and Q were very skipped to avoid any darkness being mistaken for numbers.

The serial number on fastidious Marshall amp is usually set on the back panel pray to the chassis but some amplifiers made between 1979 and 1980 had the number on class front panel. From July 1969 to December 1983, the kill denoting the year was ash after the serial number. Send off for example:

S/ 15679 E

S/ would act for the model which is 50 watt

15679 is the serial number

E indicates the year 1973

From Jan 1984 to October 1992 representation date code letter was slap before the serial number. Promoter example:

S/L C 12357

S/L  would end the model Super Lead Century watt

C indicates the year 1971

12357 is the serial number.

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1993-1997

Starting in 1993 until 1997 Marshall switched over to unadorned new serial number system. Influence new system designated the gathering of manufacture in the prime two digits of the calculate and the week of put together in the last two. That number is found under high-mindedness bar code. For example:

93579942: Assemblage of manufacture is 1993 control the 42^nd week.

95873214: Year disbursement manufacture is 1995 in prestige 14^th week.

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1997-Present

In 1997 Marshall changed to rendering latest date code system. Peaceable is very easy to concern because the year is evasively followed by the week. Fend for example:

1999-22-1349: Year of manufacture legal action 1999 in the 22^nd week.