*Here at Gordy's Music in Ferndale, Michigan, we are so proud and grateful to receive the REVERB TOP 300 SELLERS Certificate for the second year in a row! A real honor.

We want to start by thanking all of you, our customers, my partner wife Marcia, top notch crew, and Reverb.com. We have quite a team and will strive to get this certificate year after year.*

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Here we have a 1 owner 1987 Marshall Silver Jubilee model 2554 50 watt head in all original clean condition. The owner of this fine head has been a customer for 40 plus years and is being forced to retire. We are also selling his also listed 50 watt 1987 Silver Jubilee 1-12 combo here on Reverb.com as well.

https://reverb.com/item/100438472-marshall-1987-silver-jubillee-2554-1-12-50-watt-combo-low-sn-initial-rollout-rare-1-owner?publish_confirmation=true

I have shown 1 picture with both amps side by side.

This is a rare opportunity to by both models from their original owner!

He bought them both in 1987. He took very good care of them as my amp technician only had to clean the pots and input jacks. This amp is ready to ROCK! It also has it's black cover!

Cosmetically quite clean with very few nicks or blemishes in the tolex. There is natural oxidation-aging starting from being almost 50 years old. The head is clean and looks real sharp!

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If you notice inside the chassis the 2 EL 34 tubes have a 'yellow jacket' device that converts the 2 power tubes to a smaller lower wattage tube.

In short, if you swap an EL34 for an EL84 using a Yellow Jacket converter, you’re replacing a high‑power, full‑voiced tube with a low‑power, focused tube, and the converter makes it work safely in your amp.

Or, you can pull the yellow jackets out and put in a pair of original EL 34 power tubes that came with the amp originally. Most gear heads know about these and it is a common practice.

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The 1987 Marshall Silver Jubilee Model 2550 is a 50/25-watt two-channel tube head. Serial number 06908 indicates production during the late stage of the commemorative 1987 anniversary run.

Specifications:

• Power Output: 50 Watts (switchable down to 25 Watts via pentode/triode half-power switch).
• Valves (Tubes): 3 x ECC83 (12AX7) preamp tubes and 2 x EL34 power tubes.
• Channels: Two channels (Rhythm and Lead) with foot switchable or pull-switch operation.
• Unique Features: Input Gain pull-push knob for Rhythm Clip (adds extra diode-clipping gain stage).
• Controls: Presence, Bass, Middle, Treble, Output Master, Lead Master, Input Gain.
• Rear Panel: Output impedance selector (4/8/16 ohm), speaker outputs, effects loop, and direct out.

History

• Anniversary Milestone: Released in 1987 to celebrate 25 years of Marshall Amplification and founder Jim Marshall's 50 years in the music industry (hence the 25/50 designation).
• Cosmetics: Authentic 1987 models are uniquely clad in silver-grey vinyl and mirror-finish chrome front panels, which transitioned to standard black Tolex for the post-1987 "Custom Series" continuation.
• Significance: Served as a hot-rodded bridge between traditional JCM800 architecture and modern high-gain layouts. Famously adopted by iconic guitarists like Slash and John Frusciante
• Serial number: 06908

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Amp weighs 44 lbs. Comes with original wall power cord.

Ships fast and insured.

Shipping box Dimensions
36"X18"X18"

Shipping weight 52 lbs.

Shop at our Reverb Store for a bunch of vintage and other products at:

https://reverb.com/shop/gordys-music

IN BUSINESS for 40 YEARS!!

We had 3,300 positive feedbacks with Ebay before we happily

joined Reverb almost exclusively over 10 years ago.

50 YEARS of VINTAGE EXPERIENCE!
MICHIGAN GUITAR SHOW PROMOTORS Since 1989!
Brick and mortar to the end!

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Visit our new secured still under construction website to see the long list of celebrity musicians and groups we have met and serviced in the past 40 years. 

NOTE: Too cool. Late last summer we shipped a 1967 MapleGlo Rickenbacker 6-12 Converter 'comb' guitar to Billy Corigan of Smashing Pumpkins! We also then shipped a vintage 50 watt Marshall head to L.A. studio-touring guitarist extraodinaire, Michael Landau, and 2 vintage guitars to Jack White's organization down in Nashville just a few days before his 50th. birthday! mmm? Add 'The Kentucky Head Hunters' to the list, just sold Greg a cool little 50's Valco tube combo amp!

Gordy's Music has become a Detroit institution! Our shop was used as a filming location for a few films like "Miracle in Motor City" a Christmas movie on Lifetime (featuring Smoky Robinson). We've supplied gear for movies including "Bill & Ted Face The Music" with Keanu Reeves. We've got decades of celebrity customers, including recent visits from Beck, Eric Johnson, and we recently sold Billy Joel's bassist a cool Gibson SG he is in love with. One day a while back Andre 3000 and his group stopped in to browse as they were playing Masonic Temple that night and right after that we sold an old oil can Morley Wah Vibrato pedal to Credence Clearwater Revival's thee John Fogerty!

We are having and have had a lot of fun here at Gordy's Music! I was just remembering about 35 years ago a tour bus pulled up to our little shop, and who rolls right in and hangs out for an hour? Lenny Kravitz and his entire group, right about the same time I was selling many guitars to and chauffeuring around Dee Dee Ramone who had an apartment a block down from my house.