Gibson amplifiers were an accessory item for the ES and EH series guitars. Epiphone-Electar became part of the company in the mid 1950's. The last amplifiers were built for Gibson around 1966.

This Gibson BR9 has early 1950's looks, bottom mounted chasis and electronics are dated even for the 50's, also it has a field-coil magnet Jensen speaker.

This rare 1940's EH125 Gibson has bags of gain, and has the desired mellow tone. Several capacitors were leaky, so it distorted after warm-up. Power supply filters were changed before it came to DCSV. It has a 12" field coil-type speaker-typical of early Gibsons.

 from the big band era...........

 The gray capacitors replaced the mult-section single electrolytic capacitor. To my knowledge, no-one has reproduced multi-section axial capacitors, as is the case for Mallory can-types.

The Sprague orange drops corrected the distortion problems.

The original tubes are back in this unit, as they are still good. The second from the left is a replacement, however, I put the Hytron branded tube back in..when completed. 

Replacement tubes just don't look right inside this classic.

Original owner's name and address,

# on speaker is written here as well.

The current owner plans to use this EH125 for studio recording, so you might get to hear this one's unique musical personality.....

 The early sixties brought inovation at Gibson.  The Maestro was one of the first amps to have reverberation built in. Another favorite in the studio, as it overdrives quickly, and has wicked reverberation, one of the most gain/intense ever built.