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1966 (?) Fisher President - Value?

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JPLynnwood

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My uncle has a Fisher President IP - Italian Provincial Distressed Cherry console, from what I was able to glean from online information. I'm guessing it's a 1966 or 1967 based on some of the materials with it.

He has descended into dementia in the last couple of years and my sister and I have to clean out his house. I have no idea how to establish a value for it, and I would hate to see it hauled off to landfill just to get rid of it.

Any idea of what a reasonable asking price would be for this?
 
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I think that’s one of the last tube Fisher consoles right? Please post some pics if you can. Of the outside of the console, as well as the electronics inside.
 
If a '66 it should be tube tuner and preamp. If '67 it should be tube tuner and solid state integrated.

Of course this assumes everything is still original.
 
Welcome JP. Sorry to hear about your uncles ailing health.
As far as vintage consoles go, it being a Fisher and a tube one at that puts it in the upper level of maintained value. It's style being provincial harms that a bit as compared to MCM, but only in terms of desirability.
At that age unless it has had some significant work done to it, it will need it now to make it fully user ready at this point and that should, and I say should, keep it down in resale value, but you never know. It's all about the right buyer. In general they are a hard sell but it being Fisher will give it a heads up.
 
You can't give away those consoles around here.. I had a very similar one to your description. It had a solid state amp. Look up the model number of the amp in sold ebay listings. Some of the solid state early fishers are still desirable.
 
Unfortunately it's a 1967 solid-state model. I'm up in the Seattle area and I haven't found a great deal of interest in the enormous consoles either. I'll pull the model number off the amp and do more research.

Thank you to everybody for your replies.
 
^The console in that pic is huge. Are those extension speakers on the ends, or are those built in?
And my next question, what speakers does the OP’s console come with?

Edit: I guess they must be built in, or else they would only have two legs each. Lol
 
JPLynnwood said:
Unfortunately it's a 1967 solid-state model. I'm up in the Seattle area and I haven't found a great deal of interest in the enormous consoles either. I'll pull the model number off the amp and do more research.

Thank you to everybody for your replies.
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Some of the early solid state Fisher receivers are actually pretty good sounding, and can sell for a couple hundred..
 
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