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YMC 38' Cutaway Natural Beginner Acoustic Guitar Starter Package Student Guitar with Gig Bag,Strap, 3 thickness 9 picks,2 Pickguards,Pick Holder, Extra Strings, Electronic Tuner -Natural Cutaway 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,989. 1976 Serial numbers 220 were also used. Begins using one set of serial numbers for guitars & mandolins. 1994-2002 Mandolins are custom order only. 2002 Mandolin production ends. The serial number is stamped on the back of the headstock, and at (semi) acoustic guitars on the bottom inside of the body or stamped on the neck block. If you want to know the year of manufacture of your Guild guitar, you can decipher it with the serial number decoder, or find it in the tables below.

Guild history in shortOlympia Guitars Serial Numbers
Alfred Dronge was born in Warsaw, Poland on August 16, 1911 as Avram Dronge. In 1916 he emigrated with his parents to the US.
In the early 1930s Alfred found a job in the music store 'Silver & Horland' where he learned a lot about music and musical instruments.
Alfred himself played banjo and classical guitar and played in a small orchestra and also gave music lessons.
In 1936, Alfred partnered with Barney Sagman open a music store at 130 Park Row in New York City. After two years, Sagman was bought out and Alfred began to specialize in repairing used instruments.
In 1952 he founded along with former 'Epiphone Guitar Company' executive George Mann, in New York 'The Guild Guitar Company'. After only a few months, Alfred took full ownership of the company.
Epiphone's move to Philadelphia brought some of the Epiphone employees into Guild. In 1953, the first hollow body electric guitars were produced in Manhattan, New York. In the following years, the first flat tops and acoustic archtops were built.
Due to the rapid growth of the company, production was moved from New York to larger premises in Hoboken, New Jersey.
For the growth of the company are factory manager Bob Bromberg, luthier Carlo Greco and Gilbert Diaz partly responsible.
In the 1960s folk music became popular in the US.
This led Guild to produce a line of acoustic folk and blues guitars with models as D-40, D50 and D-55. Also popular in this decade were the Starfire, Thunderbird and S-100 Polara models.
Inspired by Carlo Greco, Guild also started making their first classical guitars. The first model is named after Alfred Dronge's son, Mark.
The company continued to expand and was sold in 1966 to the Avnet Corporation, which relocated production from Hoboken to Westerly, Rhode Island. The first guitar (M-20) came from this factory in 1967.
The decline in interest in folk and acoustic music in the late 1970s was a heavy economic pressure on the company.
A tragic day was May 3, 1972; Alfred died in his private plane that
crashed near the airport in Groton.
Alfred Dronge was 60 years old.
In the 1980's Guild introduced a range of solid body guitars with models as the Aviator, Detonator, Liberator, Flyer and the
Pilot Bass (fret and fretless).
These guitars were the first Guild instruments with slender pointed headstocks and, because of this shape, were also called pointy droopy,
duck foot and cake knife .
In 1995 Guild was sold to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC).
In late 2001, Fender decided to close the Westerly, Rhode Island plant and relocate all Guild production to the Corona, California plant. However, production in Corona was short-lived.
In 2004 Fender bought the facility from the Washington-based Tacoma Guitar Company. All American Guild acoustic guitar production moved to Tacoma. The production of in the US. Guild made electric guitars was discontinued completely.

Alfred Dronge


Carlo Greco

In 2008, Fender Guild moved again when it acquired Kaman Music Corporation of New Hartford, Connecticut.
Here the handicraft production of all US-made Guilds was resumed.
The Guild factory in New Hartford began with production of the top models D-55 and F-50 in 2009.
The production was soon increased and acousto-electric versions of these models were also made.
In 2014, production in New Hartford was discontinued because
FMIC had sold the Guild brand to Cordoba Music Group (CMG), based
in Santa Monica, California.
Cordoba set up a new factory in Oxnard, California and started production in 2015.
The first models were introduced in early 2016, the M-20 and D-20.
The more expensive models such as the D-55 followed in 2017.
In the early 2000s a new line of Guild acoustic guitars was developed, the GAD series. GAD stands for Guild Acoustic Design.
These guitars were based on Guild's earlier acoustic designs but were built in China and are prefixed with GAD.
The GAD line was discontinued by Cordoba in 2014.
In 2015, the acoustics 'Westerly Collection' and electric 'Newark Street' line were introduced as a tribute to Guild's more than sixty years of rich manufacturing history.
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Olympia Guitars Serial Numbers Identification


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The tables below provide the most accurate information available to Guild to distinguish date of manufacture by serial number. But as already
mentioned, the documentation of the serial numbers is not complete because there are lists in the past have been lost causing leaving some
gaps in the dating.

Gibson Guitar Serial Number Lookup

1952-1960

YEARLAST SERIAL NUMBER PRODUCED IS ESTIMATE
19531000-1500
19541500-2200
19552200-3000
19563000-4000
19574000-5700
19585700-8300
195912035


1960-1969
This table shows the first and last serial numbers of guitars produced from 1960 to 1969.

YEARFIRST NUMBERLAST NUMBER
19601203614713
19611471418419
19621842022722
19632272328943
19642894438636
1965--46606
1966--46608
1967--46637
1968--46656
1969--46695


1965-1969 From 1965 to 1969, Guild used a separate serial numbering system for each model. This table lists the year, model, and start and
end serial numbers for each instrument.

MODEL19651966196719681969
A50AB101 - 136AB137 - 162AB163 - 203AB204 - 240N/A
A150N/AN/AN/AAI101 - 108AI109 - 113
FULL LIST 1965 - 1969

1970-1979
This table shows the first and last serial numbers of guitars, produced
from 1970 to 1979. Corresponding model names or numbers are not available.

YEARFIRST NUMBERLAST NUMBER
19704669650978
19715097961463
19726146475602
19737560395496
197495497112803
1975112804130304
1976130305149625
1977149626169867
1978169868195067
1979195068211877 (tot 30 Sep. 1979)


1979-1983
From 1979 through 1983, Guild continued to use separate serial number prefixes. for every guitar model. This table shows the year, model and
last serial number.

MODEL19791980198119821983
ARTIST AWARDJA100012JA100043JA100067JA100097JA100107
B301-B302BB100400BB100846N/AN/AN/A
FULL LIST 1979 - 1983

1984-1989
From 1984 through 1989, Guild continued to add serial number prefixes
to each model. This table shows the year, model and last serial number.

MODEL198419851986198719881989
ARTIST AWARDJA100122JA100127JA100133JA100147JA100203JA100227
ASHBORY BASSN/AN/AAJ23AJ1109AJ1235N/A
FULL LIST 1984 - 1989

1990-1994
From 1990 to 1994, every model also had a serial number prefix.
This shows the year, model and last serial number.

MODEL1990199119921993
ARTIST AWARDJA100274JA100280JA100328JA100379
B4EN/AN/AN/ALD000271
FULL LIST 1990 - 1994

1994-1996
For 1994, only the latest serial number of each model is available.
For 1995 and 1996, Guild continued to use serial number prefixes
for each model, and the first and last serial number of the year.

MODEL199419951996
ARTIST AWARDAA000039AA000040 - AA000089AA000089 - AA000105
A25N/AN/AAF250272 - AF250893
FULL LIST 1994 - 1996

1997-1999
This table shows the year, model and start and end serial number.

MODEL199719981999
ARTIST AWARDAA000106 - AA000158
A25AF250894 - AF250896
FULL LIST 1997 - 1999
The round label on the inside with a GAD (number) were consecutive but do not refer to the production date of the guitar.
The serial number that correlates with the production date can be found on the heel block.
For the decoder: only enter the number on the neck block, so without GAD in front.


Dated after February 2005 made in Tacoma, Washington
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) began building Guild guitars in Tacoma, Washington in 2005.
These have a serial number consisting of two letters and six digits.
Example: TK 135012.
• The first letter 'T' indicates that the guitar was made in the production facility in Tacoma.
• The second letter indicates the year of manufacture and is based on a dating system introduced by the Tacoma guitar factory in 1998 who associated the letter 'B' with that year.
The following years are linked in sequence to the alphabet.
(I = 2005, J = 2006, K = 2007, L = 2008, M = 2009, N = 2010)
In this system, the letter 'K' stands for the year 2007.
• The first three digits are derived from the 'Julian' calendar, which associates each day of the year with a respective number in numerical order from 1 to 365. These three digits indicate the production month and day.
In this example, the number 135 indicates that the guitar was made on the 135th day of the year (2007), which is May 15 according to the Julian calendar.
• The last three digits of the serial number refer to the unit number built on that day. In this example, 012 indicates that this is the 12th guitar built on May 15th.
• Summarized: T (made in Tacoma), K (in 2007), 135 (on 15 May), 012 (the 12th guitar on that day).
Dated from December 2008, made in New Hartford, Connecticut
The same dating system described above also applies to Guild guitars made in New Hartford, Connecticut.
The first letter indicating the location of the production, however, this is now 'N', meaning 'New Hartford' indicates.
Serial number NL 348 004 is N (built in New Hartford),
L (in 2008), 348 (December 14), < strong> 004 (the 4th guitar on that day).

Guild factory New Hartford


Other serial number formats
PYYxxxx (7 digits) P = Production location. 3 Made by Cordoba, Valencia, Spain. YY = Year. xxxx = Production number.
PYYxxxxx (8 digits) P = Production location. 1 = China 8 = Oxnard, California. YY = Year. xxxxx = Production number.
PPYYMMxx (2 letters 6 digits) PP = Production location.

GY = China. YY = Year.(20YY) MM = Month. xx = Production number.
PPYxxxxxx (2 letters 7 digits) PP = Production location.

KC = Korea Cort. IC = Indonesia Cort. Y = Year.(199Y)
xxxxxx = Production number.
PPYYxxxxxx (2 letters 8 digits) PP = Production location.

KC = Korea Cort. Y = Year.(20YY) xxxxxx = Production number.
PPPYYxxxxx (3 letters 7 digits) PPP = Production location.

KWM = Korea World Musical. KSG = Korea SPG. YY = Year.(20YY) xxxxx = Production number.
PMMxxxxxx (3 letters 6 digits) P = Production location.

C = Corona, California. MM = Model. (example: UV = F50, PM = D25 ) xxxxxx = Production number.