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My Victory Combo S/N is 4V0106001

 

It's the mystery from the mistaken, lake adjacent! 'Tis good to see the familiar Fleur-de-Lis.

 

I had forgotten about this project. If others could present additional SNs, we could wrap this up.

  • 3 weeks later...
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Victory combo off fee pay:

SERIAL NUMBER: 4V0321005

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'Twarn't mine Gitfiddler. Just a # I stole from the interweb.

 

Did you notice that your Patriot amp's SN is the same as TalismanRich's Patriot AND rjsander's Britton II?

 

I'm still having a tough time decoding these #s...

  • 3 weeks later...
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Yippee! I finally get to contribute to this post!

 

2P0225004

 

So do I have this right:

 

2nd revision, Patriot, Feb 25 2004, 4 unit of the day?

 

Picked up this Patriot last week and am having a great time discovering it's wonderful tone.

 

It's my first tube amp, replacing a Line 6 Spider Jam. Can you imagine the difference? Wow!

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Gee Haw! More happy NADs! That isn't a step up, it's a quantum leap forward - Congrats!

 

Is the Patriot a head or combo?

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Patriot Combo. I'm in proverbial seventh heaven.

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You have some of the most beautiful guitars to play through it. I'm sure you'd be in 8th heaven if they had one :)

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Victory combo off fee pay:

SERIAL NUMBER: 4V0321005

 

OK, so I am weak! I couldn't help myself! :icon_rr:

 

Now I need to sell off my Blues Deluxe, '77 DR and '81 Concert amps to make room...

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OK, so I am weak! I couldn't help myself! :icon_rr:

 

Now I need to sell off my Blues Deluxe, '77 DR and '81 Concert amps to make room...

Geez, Tim, that's beautiful AND a great deal. CONGRATS!

 

$_57.JPG

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Geez, Tim, that's beautiful AND a great deal. CONGRATS!

 

 

 

Thanks, Ron. That sweet, minty amp got no bids after being listed for 30 days...so I called the seller and made an offer. :icon_pirat: Next thing I knew, I had a NAD on the way. :icon_silent:

 

Heritage Victory combo: SERIAL NUMBER: 4V0321005

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Oh my, that's a beauty! Enjoy!!!!!

  • 1 month later...
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Another obscure Heritage Amplification history tidbit:

 

http://www.jedistar.com/jedistar%20amp%20dating_h.htm

 

 

Heritage Amplifiers were handmade in Brentwood, Tennessee. No longer in production.

Heritage Amplifiers of Tennessee was a guitar amplification company owned by Maclane Corporation Incorporated. The company was formed in January 2004 by Malcolm MacDonald and Lane Zastrow. Lane was a veteran of the music industry and a former Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Gibson Guitar Company. Lane headed up the sales and marketing of the Heritage Guitar Company of Kalamazoo.

The design team was headed by Paul Cochrane and cabinet design by Peter Mather. The line included amplifiers which range from producing warm, fat, American tones, to the classic "midrange" crunch of British valve amps. [source: Waybackmachine ]

Models included The Colonial, The Briton, The Briton II, The Victory, The Kenny Burrell, The Liberty.

 

Image Heritage Colonial amp:

heritage_colonial.jpg

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Are there any updates for our informal Heritage Amplifier Serial Number Registry?

 

C'mon guys, give it up if you own any Heritage amp. :icon_smile:

 

Heritage Amplifier Owners Club bump!

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Here's what I have so far.

THANK YOU to all who have participated!

Victory	Combo	4V0106001	01	06	0	0	1
Colonial	2C1014036	10	14	0	3	6
Colonial	2C0520014	05	20	0	1	4
Colonial	2C0705023	07	05	0	2	3
Victory	Combo	4V0321005	03	21	0	0	5
Lobo		2L0621005	06	21	0	0	5
Victory	Head	2VH1222002	12	22	0	0	2
Liberty	Head	3L0825005	08	25	0	0	5
Victory	Head	4VHO628005	06	28	0	0	5
Briton II	3BH0329004	03	29	0	0	4
Patriot	Combo	3P0329004	03	29	0	0	4
Patriot		3P0329007	03	29	0	0	7
Victory		2V0531012	05	31	0	1	2
			        MONTH	DAY			
Patriot	Combo	2P0225004	02	25	0	0	4
Patriot	Combo	4P0527007	05	27	0	0	7
Patriot	Combo	2P0430012	04	30	0	1	2
Kenny Burrell	2F0216002	02	16	0	0	2

The company started in '03, ended in '08

The first character is between 2 and 4. I thought perhaps the model iteration?

The next character is indicative of the model.

The next 4 numbers fit dates. The first two are always between 1 & 12 representing the month.

The next two are between 1 & 31 indicating day of the month

The next number is always a "0" perhaps a place for the number of decades the company has been viable?

The last two are a riddle wrapped in an enigma:

I want to believe there is a year indicator akin to Heritage Guitar's alpha year code where "0" indicates 2003 but I have no numbers greater than 3 which would suggest all the amps sampled were constructed between the years 2003 to 2006; not very likely given our sample size.

The last digit I thought might be the nth amp built that day akin to Heritage Guitar's last serial digit. There is a "7" in this column, they were only functioning for six years so this cannot be the year code.

 

Is there anything you see that I don't?

I checked TGP, Reverb and feepay. Are there other serial #s out there?

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Here's what I have so far.

THANK YOU to all who have participated!

Victory	Combo	4V0106001	01	06	0	0	1
Colonial	2C1014036	10	14	0	3	6
Colonial	2C0520014	05	20	0	1	4
Colonial	2C0705023	07	05	0	2	3
Victory	Combo	4V0321005	03	21	0	0	5
Lobo		2L0621005	06	21	0	0	5
Victory	Head	2VH1222002	12	22	0	0	2
Liberty	Head	3L0825005	08	25	0	0	5
Victory	Head	4VHO628005	06	28	0	0	5
Briton II	3BH0329004	03	29	0	0	4
Patriot	Combo	3P0329004	03	29	0	0	4
Patriot		3P0329007	03	29	0	0	7
Victory		2V0531012	05	31	0	1	2
			        MONTH	DAY			
Patriot	Combo	2P0225004	02	25	0	0	4
Patriot	Combo	4P0527007	05	27	0	0	7
Patriot	Combo	2P0430012	04	30	0	1	2
Kenny Burrell	2F0216002	02	16	0	0	2

The company started in '03, ended in '08

The first character is between 2 and 4. I thought perhaps the model iteration?

The next character is indicative of the model.

The next 4 numbers fit dates. The first two are always between 1 & 12 representing the month.

The next two are between 1 & 31 indicating day of the month

The next number is always a "0" perhaps a place for the number of decades the company has been viable?

The last two are a riddle wrapped in an enigma:

I want to believe there is a year indicator akin to Heritage Guitar's alpha year code where "0" indicates 2003 but I have no numbers greater than 3 which would suggest all the amps sampled were constructed between the years 2003 to 2006; not very likely given our sample size.

The last digit I thought might be the nth amp built that day akin to Heritage Guitar's last serial digit. There is a "7" in this column, they were only functioning for six years so this cannot be the year code.

 

Is there anything you see that I don't?

I checked TGP, Reverb and feepay. Are there other serial #s out there?

 

Good Intel here !

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Nice work, Steiner!

 

Here's a Colonial Head for sale on Ebay. No serial number listed however.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heritage-Colonial-All-Tube-Hand-Wired-50-Watt-Guitar-Amplifier-Head-/301664195927?hash=item463c965557:g:pfUAAOSwk0pVgIE1

 

Heritage Victory on Gbase:

https://www.gbase.com/gear/heritage-amplifiers-victory-1x12-green

 

Heritage Briton on Gbase:

https://www.gbase.com/gear/heritage-amplifiers-briton-2x12-black

 

Hopefully other owners will chime in with their info.

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For our more technically astute members, check out Paul Cochrane's amplifier selectable power supply Patent.

 

 

https://www.google.com/patents/US7417502?hl=en&dq=ininventor:%22Paul+Cochrane%22

 

Publication number US7417502 B1 Publication type Grant Application number US 11/335,438 Publication date Aug 26, 2008 Filing date Jan 18, 2006 Priority date Jan 18, 2006

 

 

My take away was Paul's solution to bringing vintage tones to 21st century (Heritage) amplifiers.

 

 

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That's a great read Gitfiddler. It appears to be Cochrane's genius to bring out the various sounds on the Colonial. I also find it mildly ironic that three other powerhouses (Bad Cat Hot Cat 30, VHT Pitbull and Metropoulos '68 12000 Series Plexi) were cited in the patent. While most amps switch to a different circuit to achieve various sounds, Cochrane varied the transformer power on the same circuit. Eureka!

  • 3 weeks later...
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Here are a couple more Heritage amp serial numbers to add to our growing list. These are owned by a friend of mine, (HOC member 'Floorshaker'). He also owns my former 150 Goldtop P90 gitfiddle.

The Patriot is a standard reddish covered beast and the Liberty is a very cool looking aged tweed tone monster.

 

Patriot combo: SN 2P0225001

 

Liberty head: SN 3L014001

 

Any more Heritage Amplifiers of Tennessee out there? Come on down!

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