Help ID Old Speaker

[Mrrite008]

This is my first post here on AudioKarma, any ideas on identifying the pictured speaker? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mhardy6647]

The bell cover and basket says "Jensen" to me (EDIT: or perhaps Utah)... but I don't recognize the specific model and (obviously) there's no label on the back of the bell cover. Perhaps an OEM version of a Jensen. Do either of the numbers stamped on the rim of the basket or on the cone start with "220"? That is Jensen's EIA identifier code.
http://www.webervst.com/codes.html

Vintage Jensen info at:
http://www.hifilit.com/hifilit/Jensen/Jensen.htm

Here's a nice vintage Jensen document, but the file is big and the server slow... still worth downloading in the background sometime!
http://www.tubebooks.org/file_downloads/Jensen_spkr_plans.pdf
The source of this latter PDF is Pete Millett's wonderful on-line resource: www.tubebooks.org

 

[kfa888]

Basket looks Utah brand.

 

[Vaughn]

driver is different but cabinet is identical to a Jensen Imperial I just had

 

[Mrrite008]

I'm not the current owner of this beautiful speaker + cabinet. So i dont have it on hand to check the EIA code. When i first seen it, i was thinking the cab resembled a Jensen Imperial Reproducer.

 

[Mrrite008]

Yep, thats the cab i was reffering to.

 

[mhardy6647]

Basket looks Utah brand.

ummm-hmm, I actually went back and amended my post, after staring at the photo and perusing the Jensen links I posted a bit

 

[JimPA]

Why do so many old speakers not have their names somewhere on the box.?

 

[mhardy6647]

Mostly because the enclosures and the speaker drivers were often sold separately.
Take a look at the 1950s general catalogs at www.radioshackcatalogs.com and you'll see...

 

[Mrrite008]

I'm working on getting the EIA code....any suggestions as to pontential value anyone?

 

[EVBoy]

Usually if the speakers are silver they aren't collectible vintage types but it is a nice cabinet. $50?

 

[mhardy6647]

Usually if the speakers are silver they aren't collectible vintage types but it is a nice cabinet. $50?

That's a really odd generalization.

I think the going rate for one of these silver speakers is a tad over 50 smackers, e.g.

 

[Gang-Twanger]

I bet that's one warm, sweet-sounding little cab for mono stuff. There are very-few modern speakers out there that can make mono stuff sound wonderful, and these old alnico drivers do it very-well (since that's what they were designed to play).

 

[EVBoy]

Shiny, silver, stamped metal basket speakers is what I was referring to.