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We retubed it with original 1950's NOS Tung Sol 5881 tubes and removed the tube cage. He payed about $2500, no sales tax and I understand shipping was about $30. I played a new Bandmaster last weekend that my friend ordered online. A new Victoria would probably cost as much (or more?) than the new Fender. While the quoted statement statement is technically correct, it would be more equitable to compare new prices to new prices, and used to used.
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To be fair, if you waited until there are some used '57 reissue Fender Bandmasters on ebay, they would probably sell for about the same as the used Victoria. When I'm done even though it will be a recover, I'll have less in it than a new Bandmaster and it will be the real deal in a very similar model amp. Now that I've got the chassis working I'm glad I went this route. I have the original cab off to be restored to it's original tweed glory, and bought a Mojotone 15 to 12 adapter ring as I plan to first try running a 12" in it. Luckily the original OT and choke were good, though I shrink wrapped the tattered cloth leads on them for safety. I reused the brown cardboard cap tubes over new Atoms for the cap job. With a new Mercury Magnetics power transformers and recapping of the electrolytics it's playing and sounding great.
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Even though it had an old recover in black vinyl the baffle is original with nice original cloth. Luckily the Astron signal caps were all there, and other than the missing power tranformer the chassis was just about untouched but dirty and in need of some TLC. I got a recovered (black vinyl) cab, a changed speaker and the chassis wasn't working and missing the power transformer.
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I was considering a new Bandmaster but ran into a '59 tweed Pro "project amp" at the 3 Amigos guitar show recently.