"The concept of a 'stencil-line' is relatively simple: the amplifier maker produces amplifiers
for 'wholesale' to virtually anyone who asks, and puts the buyers name on the panel.
Usually, it is the same amplifier produced over and over again - only the front panel name is changed."
Another prolific maker was Garnet. Besides their well renown line of amplifiers (thanks to BTO), they did a lot of stenciling. Here is a nice site with a lot of info on the different brands that came out of this activity.
Note that some of these brands were also produced by Pepco (raven - supreme - stagg - etc...). Is there a cooperation that used to take place between the two manufacturers.......was the layouts and/or schematics common.... Who knows !
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The individual brand names were owned by the companies they produced for, the Supreme name , for example , was owned by Peate Musical Supply which was in the 60`s a large retailer located on Mansfield Street in the downtown area. They later went to wholsesale opertaions only but still maintained rthe Supreme brand for drums and amplifiers. The Lark name was most recently used for imported violins by a few Montreal companies, but there were a lot more music dealers and wholesalers in the 60`s than today.
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