Help valuing a Hohner amp

dhaywood17

Hi,

A friend of mine is looking to sell an old Hohner Vendetta 65LV amp but has no idea on what is worth. It's in pretty good cosmetic condition but it's missing one of the baffles from the rear that would protect the valves. Electronically it needs some attention. The low input socket seems to have a bad joint somewhere along its signal path as the volume jumps intermittently and seems to react to the jack being wiggled. This seems to improve as the amp gets warm almost to the point it works fine once the amps been on for half an hour.

Any information about the amp or what if might be worth would be greatly appreciated. He was going to stick it on Gumtree for a couple of hundred quid but I felt it must be worth more than that. I'm guessing it's a 60's, British made amp with two channels, effects loops both before and after the preamp. Bright switches on both channels and built in reverb and presence. Currently fitted with a Celestion Lead 80

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ICBM

It's 1980s, not 60s. It looks suspiciously like it was made by Pro-Amp, who were British, going by the cabinet - or possibly Laney - although Hohner are German and also manufactured guitars and other gear in Korea, so who knows! If it makes any difference the "~" symbol indicating AC mains voltage is German in style not British, but that may not mean a lot.

Very hard to put a value on something as unknown as this, but it won't be less than £150 or probably more than about £300 if it sounds very good and you find someone who really wants it. You may be able to add about £50 to those figures with a full service, but probably no more than that.

dhaywood17

Thanks for the info, I'll pass it on. I was guessing the age based on the front if that makes sense. It doesn't sound too bad although a little fizzy with the gain up high. It'd probably benefit from something like a greenback in it but even that would be a question of taste.