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Topic: BR-9 Serial Number |
Jeff Mead
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Posted 18 Jun 2015 3:07 am |
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I always thought that the BR-9 did not have a serial number but mine does. Anyone else seen this.
I'm assuming that, like Fender, the serial numbers on their steels are not related to the ones they used on their regular guitars as my number would date it to 1967 - long after they stopped making them.
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2015 5:41 am
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Usually Gibson stamped their serial number on the top rear of the headstock 90 degrees from how that number is stamped on the BR-9 in your photo. I don't recall ever seeing a BR-9 with a serial number, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Sometimes instruments exported outside the U.S.A. were stamped with a serial number that looked like that by the distributor, the importer, or some third party outside the factory. |
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John Dahms
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2015 7:33 am
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As I remember it, Gibson solid bodies including steels that had serial numbers would be ink stamped at the top rear of the headstock starting in 1954. I don't remember any BR9 that I have seen that had a serial number.
Stamped numbers began (I think) in '61 and by then there were no more BR9's being made.
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Jeff Mead
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Posted 18 Jun 2015 9:26 am
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Thanks guys - yes, I reckon the serial number must have been added after it left the factory.
It ended up over here in the UK so maybe it was imported when it was still new and the dealer over here added the number? |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2015 11:59 am
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| Jeff Mead wrote: |
| It ended up over here in the UK so maybe it was imported when it was still new and the dealer over here added the number? |
That would be the most likely explanation for your serial number.
I have a 1951/1952 blue Gibson Century with a similarly stamped serial number. The instrument came from Canada:
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