This guitar has the serial number “0558”. In T. J. Thompson’s terminology the first two number indicates the year (2005) that the […]

Serial number 49621 was stamped on January 5, 1932 and cleared final inspection on July 3 that year. The tuners are Grover […]

Serial number 48807 is one of the few known “dark top” OM-28 guitars. Only ten can be accounted for in the Martin […]

Serial number 45303 was stamped on December 31, 1930 and cleared final inspection on February 21, 1931. As this guitar was made […]

Serial number 39944 is a 1929 00-28. It was stamped on October 16, 1929 and cleared final inspection on March 5, 1930. […]

This guitar is a “orange” top Martin 1-21 guitar from 1899. It is signed “H.A.V.” and dated “Jan. 16, 1899”. “H.A.V.” was  H. […]

This guitar is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it is dated “April 7, 1896” under the top and is signed […]

Serial number 68389 was stamped on November 19, 1937 and cleared final inspection on March 4, 1938. The tuners are Grover G-98 […]

Serial number 64161 is one of those rarely seen dark top D-18 guitars from 1936. It was stamped on August 19, 1936 […]