For so many years players have been chasing after the "vintage" sound, and they have gone to the extent of paying hundreds of dollars for this!
Notice the small area that is popping out? That is a sign of the capacitor being a Paper in oil cap! If it is a poly capacitor there wont be a notch there, as the notch is there as a result of sealing the oil inside the capacitor.
Recently (like two years ago), gibson released a series of historic reissue parts for sale.
Here you can see they released another batch of bumblebees?
The answer to that is NO.
Those are just wesco film capacitors. Gibson simply repackaged it with some plastic cover that looked like bumblebees from the 50s and sell it to consumers.
A pair of caps with a production cost of ~10cents for 200 dollars? You gotta be kidding me right?
Unfortunately, there are still people who think that gibson found a entire stock of NOS (New Old Stock) capacitors and are selling it now. God knows where that myth came from.
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