Enter your serial number and we'll look up the date of manufacture using our lightning fast engine. This blog is dedicated to Made in Japan guitars. The letter that (may) begin the serial number corresponds with the month of production, and the next 2 digits tell the year. I’m trying to find determine what’s kind it is, but can’t figure it out. Tokai currently make the Kanda Shokai Zemaitis and Talbo models. Ibanez Super 70 pickups have the same serial number format. Only “Japan” on the neck plate and cursive logotype tell us it’s probably a very early one, possibly late 60’s or early 70’s. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s Greco models have mostly used 2 serial number formats for non Acoustic models.
For example: E804235 would be a May, 1980 “Super Realâ€� model, production number 4,235. Mike Brown wrote: Oh yes, this kit is for those amplifiers that were shipped prior to s/n08575482. C = month (A = January, B = February … F = June, L = December). Thanks Frankie, great help! Thanks for the site. Thank you so much, I had not looked those catalogs, I must have missed them.
When Matsumoku made all Greco guitars, they didn't put any serial numbers on the body. Read more about this topic: Greco Guitars, “An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.”-Quentin Crisp (b.
