Bluman
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You asked me to look closer, and thought I might find a "7" as the first digit. I cannot see a 7, but this serial number is off-center, suggesting there may be a missing "7" as the first digit. (I included a photo of the serial number) If so, it appears my Marauder is a 1979. Do you agree? Was it made in Kalamazoo or Nashville?
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If there is (or is supposed to be) a 7 at the beginning, this would have been stamped on the 277th day of 1979 and it would have been the 147th guitar stamped in Nashville that day. Nashville’s last 3 digits started with 500 then, therefore 647 would be the 147th guitar. All of this is highly plausible for a Marauder. You might look for a number on the pots as well. The number you are looking for will begin with 137 or 304. The next two digits are the year. The last two digits are the week. If you see another number on the pots, that’s Gibsons part number.
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I have the same problem, a serial number that makes no sense to me, beginning with a "2", including that mine is 7 digits!
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I have the same problem, a serial number that makes no sense to me, including that mine is 7 digits!
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ksdaddy, ---An observation, If you look close at the 7 digit number in the above photo, you'll see the "2" looks thinner, as if, it was added afterward by a different stamp. How would you account for this? Once you see this photo, lets please DELETE it. I want to protect Gibson serial numbers.
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Just thinking, the serial number has 7 digits (I ONLY find 6 digits used for Marauders) . And this serial number begins with a 2 (both of these two facts make NO sense to me) If I ignored this 2, and used the 1-5 digit rule, this guitar would be a 1974, and that sounds about right. Could the first digit 2, have been added by mistake? Any thoughts? Also I read the Marauders were made in Kalamazoo, AND in Nashville. So could one of them, used a different numbering system? Here is a photo.
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I have a Gibson Marauder with a 7 digit serial number, 2779647. Does anyone know when and where this was made?
