I was at a vintage guiatr shop in Seattle and they did some work on my alpine white epi (see pg 13 at bottom) of this forum. According to epi/gibson book,they never made alpine White Sheratons in 88. I assumed by the serial, which is near yours anf the folks that sold it to me that it was an 88 but it appears that may not be so. Getting definitive info has been very hard. Ours are very close except color. The font on the headstock is the same as well as the E on the pickguard. Havent seen ANY others like it and I havent seen a single whiote epi like mine. Lots of ones similar. I have a couple of shops diggine up more info.