Help ID Old Speaker

Mrrite008

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

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

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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).
 
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