Vintage Guitars! Vintage Guitar Pro - guitar appraisals, buy, sell, trade, and collect vintage guitars. "The online source for the vintage guitar enthusiast offering vintage guitar appraisal, vintage guitar articles and information, guitar T-shirts, serial numbers and free classifieds."

** Click Here For Email Updates! **
Home | Appraisals | VG Pro Shop | Articles | News | Guitar Pics | Classifieds | Serial Numbers | About Us | Contact Us | Links


Subscribe to Vintage Guitar Magazine Learn To Play Guitar...
 Our Top 2 Picks
The Fastest and Easiest Way to Accelerate Off Your Guitar Plateau - Fast-track your guitar mastery.
Get right to the good stuff and play faster and better than you ever imagined!

Vintage Guitar Serial Numbers - Gretsch

Year Serial Number
1949-1950 3000-3999
1951 4000's, 5000's
1952 5000's, 6000's
1953 6000's-8000's
1954 9000's-12000's
1955 12000's-16000's
1956 17000's-21000's
1957 22000's-26000's
1958 27000's-30000's
1959 30000's-34000's
1960 34000's-39000's
1961 39000's-45000's
1962 46000's-52000's
1963 53000's-63000's
1964 63000's-77000's
1965 77000's-84000's


During 1965, serial numbers changed. The first two digits represented the month, the next digit represented the last digit of the year. The remaining numbers indicated order of production.

Starting in 1967, "made in USA" was stamped on the back of the headstock.

From 1973-1981 the serial numbers were hyphenated. First digits before the hyphen represented the month, first digit after hypen represented the year.

Back to Vintage Guitar Serial Number TOC
Vintage Guitars Appraisal Vintage Guitars For Sale - Guitar Classifieds
SERIAL
NUMBER
DATABASE
Search: Select Web or This Site
 



Vintage Guitars    Vintage Portal    Dream Glossary
VintageGuitarPro.com is designed and optimized to be viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution in IE 6 and Netscape 6.
ŠVintageGuitarPro.com 2001-2007. All material on this site is owned by VintageGuitarPro.com unless otherwise credited.