![]() ![]() Also, that number in the lower right hand corner, "91B," corresponds with a 1991 date. So that prefix indicates an amplifier manufactured in year 1 of the decade. Your serial # 1A-05016114 still follows the system used throughout the 80s, and apparently into the early 90s. In my limited experience, a teal stripe such as yours would date from 1990 on. The Solo Series Bandit 112 was manufactured after the Bandit 75, beginning in 1988, continuing to 1995. But then again I have an old Peavey Envoy 110 teal stripe that is a 1990, and uses the serialization system of the 1980s. ![]() My Peavey Studio Pro 112 TransTube (1995 or 1996, I believe) has an 8 digit serial number without a prefix. IIRC, some time in the early 1990s, that serialization system changed. Peavey (Back to top of page) Serial numbers correlate to. And in the lower right hand corner of the nameplate is the designation 84C, which corresponds to the year indicated in the serial number. All acoustic serial numbers begin with the letter A and are followed by the two digit year prefix. So, for example, my Bandit 65's serial # is 4A-01900152, so my Bandit 65 was an amp manufactured in year 4 of the 1980s, i.e., 1984. And in the lower right hand corner of the nameplate is the designation 84C, which corresponds to the year indicated in the serial number. And in the lower right hand corner there was a number and a letter corresponding to the year the prefix indicated. So, for example, my Bandit 65s serial is 4A-01900152, so my Bandit 65 was an amp manufactured in year 4 of the 1980s, i.e., 1984. That was followed by a letter, which IIRC ("If I Recall Correctly," in case you were wondering) indicated the type of gear in question. Peavey still produces guitars and amps in the USA – including the HP2 range of electric guitars, as well as Budda amps – and Peavey assures us that this auction of material and equipment will not have any impact on its USA manufacturing operations.The first digit of the prefix was a number, indicating what year in the decade the piece was manufactured. While the return won’t be what any of us want and far less than the fully reserved book value, it will enable us to rent out some or sell all of this facility.” “Short of another decade of trying to sell it bit by bit, we decided it easiest and most expeditious to have a professional auction company market and sell it. “We found the entire facility filled with baskets and pallets of parts no longer used, wood from old guitar manufacturing, necks and bodies that never made it into a completed guitars, and overly accommodated returns from dealers that got forgotten or were left untouched by our repair team. “As we closed or consolidated a number of manufacturing locations, the excess items all ended up in our 300,000 sq ft warehouse facility,” Gray tells us. ![]()
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