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1938/1940 000-45S, Serial Number 71600

Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

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 […]

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1936 Martin F-9 Guitar, Serial Number 63593

Posted on March 1, 2019March 5, 2019

The F-9 guitars were the most expensive guitars offered by Martin in the pre-war period, surpassing even the price of D-45 guitars. In 1941 the F-9s had a retail price of $250 compared to $225 for the D-45. A total of 72 F-9 guitars were made between 1935 and 1942 but sales in 1935 and […]

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1936 Martin 000-45 Guitar, Serial Number 62276

Posted on March 1, 2019March 5, 2019

A total of sixteen 000-45 guitars were made in 1936, in three batches of 6. Serial number 62276 was stamped on February 7, 1936 and cleared final inspection on June 23 that year. This guitar has an insteresting set of gold-plated and engraved Grover G-98G tuning machines. The Grovers are a late use of the […]

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