Vitorio Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Hi, my grandfather just gave me this guitar (it was laying in the basemant for many years) and I have no clue what model or from which year it is. Originally guitar belonged to my great grandfather who played in Jaroslav Jezek's swing band and guitar is on photos from years '36 - '39 (apparently he bought it around year '35 - but cant be sure about that). Any information would be most appreciated. I tried to find information on my own but theres so many different models that varies from year to year that i got lost :). Thank you in advance for any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 The FON (factory order number) stamp looks to contain the letter "B" as the last ink stamped character, this would date the guitar to 1936. The model looks to be an L-50. The L-50 went through a few changes in the '35-'36 era from a round-hole archtop, to a slope-shouldered archtop, to a "Grand Auditorium" body size archtop. The guitar pictured has a couple "crossover" traits, which would make it one of the early "modern" style L-50's, in basically the same configuration as it remained for the rest of it's run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Larry you are like an encyclopedia.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitorio Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thank you very much for answer. Does those two last number (21?) mean something? Or is it some imperfection in wood that coincidentally look like numbers? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thank you very much for answer. Does those two last number (21?) mean something? Or is it some imperfection in wood that coincidentally look like numbers? :) The red, hand-written "21" is the sequence number of this guitar within the "batch" or rack represented by the ink-printed number. There might be typically 40 guitars associated with the same batch number. For example, I have a guitar with the factory order number (FON) 3644 8. That is the 8th guitar in batch 3644. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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