There are old Peaveys that are like this. (for cheap!) and old Music Man's, I think (for not so cheap)
I will sing your praises with the blood of a thousand vikings if you can provide model numbers.
The most important thing with a tube amp is that the circuit be as simple as possible. If you want one that sounds great, you do not want any bells and whistles. Some things are OK (reverb, tremolo, a tone stack), but you do NOT want a master volume. Master volume makes amps suck.
Totally subjective, IMO. I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about (you do, based on what I've read of your posts on this forumn

), but you yourself have said you're not a fan of preamp gain. If you're looking for that cascading gain stage saturated lead sound, then something with a master volume makes a lot more sense.
...aaaand I wrote that before I saw your comment referring to the Mark-IV as the epitome of why you hate preamp distortion, lol. Yeah, it's a total case of different strokes for different folks. I think the Mark-IV has one of the best lead sounds I've ever heard. Run one of the gains most of the way up, the other half to three quarters, roll the bass down, keep the mids pretty high and the treble at 6 or 7 or so, and bypass the 5-band EQ in triode mode, and man... It's one of the most responsive, three dimensional feeling amps I've ever played.
Again, you're not wrong, it's just there's different forms of "right" here.
Meanwhile, the Mesa fanboi-ism is getting a little heavy in here, even for me. Matchbook, did you ever say exactly what sort of a tone you were looking for? More than just "something with a bit of crunch"?
Since they keep coming up, the Peavey Classic 30 is actually a VERY well respected amp in the industry. also, I was quite surprised with the Crate Palomino 30 I played - it ran awfully hot (it was at a GC and had probably been on for a few hours, but still the knobs were hot to the touch, which worried me), but for bluesy lead stuff a la Gilmour, I was caught off guard. Even my buddy who I was at the GC with who doesn't listen to much that's not metal looked at me while I was playing through the thing, and said, "That's a
Crate??!!"
That said (and Light, you'll appprove

) the best clean tone I've ever heard was my Strat into a Dr Z Carmen Ghia a friend's dad used to own, into a custom 1x12 he built. Good lord. Neil Zaza describes his Dr. Z Route 66 as sounding "like angels flying out of the speakers," and I honestly couldn't think of a better way to describe it. Simply phenominal gritty clean tones, and I recall the heads going for something like $800 back then.