Halifax - Treble Booster
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That's a heavy duty build!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquardt_Group is a German company...
I have seen these old non-colored coded resistors in different units from Japan, Italy and other places. I tend to think to are old WWII stock from military bases. When the bases closed, it seems electronics stock was sold off cheap locally instead of shipping it back to US?
Treble control is a rotary switch with two resistors and one capacitor... not very common as a setup.
Even without seeing the trace side, it shouldn't be that hard to trace it...
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Those could also be dogbone capacitors rather than resistors on the rotary switch, so possibly three different values of caps to select from. Which is pretty swanky for the time period...
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It's a rebranded Höfner pedal. The earliest sighting of the Höfner series that I'm aware of is in this catalogue from 1967, but I guess they were probably in production for a while. I'm not sure about what the 'Halifax' company is, but I think I've seen these pedals branded for them surface in the United States. I've also seen Halifax-branded 'Manny's/Clark/Tim's own/Orpheum etc' fuzzes surface in Canada, FWIW.
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