Serial number 11219 was stamped on January 11, 1911 and was shipped t0 Eilere Music House in Seattle WA on December 15, 1911. The tuners are German silver Handel machines with inlaid ivory buttons. Style 42 features: Back and sides: Brazilian rosewood Top: Red spruce (Adirondack) Purfling: Abalone and lines on top and around fingerboard […]
Serial number 33324 was stamped on October 11, 1927. The tuners are Waverly chrome-plated G-32 machines with white ivoroid buttons. The bridge is a replacement made by noted luthier TJ Thompson. Style 45 features: Back and side: Brazilian rosewood Top: Red spruce (Adirondack) Abalone purfling on the top, back, sides and sound hole Style 45 […]
Serial number 69899 was stamped on March 25, 1938 and cleared final inspection on October 27 that year. This guitar was once owned by Smiley Burnette who was Gene Austry’s sidekick in many western movies. Like all style 45 guitars it has thin abalone strips inlaid around the top, back and sides as well as […]
Here is a very unusual guitar. It started off life as a 1938 000-45S that was supposed to have received an F-9 neck 1-11/16″ wide at the nut. However, the special order was cancelled after the body had been made so Martin kept the body and re-used it for another 000-45S in 1940. So the […]
Serial numbe 38471 was stamped on April 25, 1929 and cleared final inspection on August 27 that year. During March 1928 Martin slightly increased the thickness of guitars tops. Having been made after that date this guitar has the thicker top that makes it fully capable of accepting steel strings. Since it was made in […]
This guitar is a great example of an early high-grade Martin guitar. Styles 40 and 42 were the two fanciest grades of Martin at the time with style 40 being slightly commoner than style 42. The main difference between stlye 40 and 42 is that on style 42 the abalone purfling extended around the fingerboard […]