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Mike McBride


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Indiana
Post  Posted 11 Mar 2006 2:31 am    
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I recently bought a vintage GEBS lap steel. I suspect that it is from the '40's. Stamped into the wood at the end of the the head:

1426 G

The G is of a different,larger font.

I read somewhere that Nationals used a
a code that involved the letter G during the '40's.

Can anyone here contribute to my search for info?

[This message was edited by Mike McBride on 11 March 2006 at 03:08 AM.]

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Brad Bechtel


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San Francisco, CA
Post  Posted 11 Mar 2006 9:08 am    
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The GEBS steel listed here in an earlier discussion is not a Valco-made lap steel. Clay Harrell has a Valco dating chart here: http://www.provide.net/~cfh/national.html#valco

Send me a picture if it's not the same instrument previously discussed; I may be able to identify it.

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