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DATING EPIPHONE GUITARS AND MANDOLINS
BY REFERENCE OF SERIAL NUMBERS
Epiphone guitars come from a number of different factories in different countries.
For this reason, it is not that easy to recognize where each guitar came from or when it was made. Epiphone stamps a serial number on each guitar, which after decryption can tell you where and when it was built.
Where to find the serial number
Locate the serial number on the headstock of the guitar.
With Semi-Hollow models on the label inside the top f-hole and with acoustic guitars on the label inside the sound hole.
It consists of a number of digits, often also in advance of one or two letters.
If you want to know the production year of your Epiphone guitar/mandolin, you can decipher it with the serial number decoder, or find it in explanation about the dating system below.
Epihone history in short.
| Anastasios Stathopoulos born in 1863, was a Greek luthier who started a mandolin and violin company in 1873 in Pellana, Greece. In 1903 he emigrated with his wife to New York. As luthier he started a year later a company that mainly produced mandolins. The company ran well, and therefore he took the Italian professional Henry cappielo employed. After the death of Anastasios in 1915, his son Epaminondas (Epi) take control over the company. Under his management the company grows to one of the biggest of its kind. A few years later, Epaminondas opens a factory where mainly banjos were made. In 1924 he registered the brand name Epiphone, a combination of his own name (Epi) with the Greek word for sound (phone). Shortly thereafter, Epi buys the banjo company Favoran and introduces the banjo Epiphone Recording line. Because of their quality and elegant design, it will be a great success. Due to the success of the banjo Recording line, a Recording line for guitars was also established in 1928 and a full line of f-hole archtop guitars was introduced in 1931. There are 12 models, including the top models: Broadway, Triumph and DeLuxe. Epiphone has been competing with Epaminondas dies in 1943 and the business is continued by his two sons Orpheus (Orphie) and Frixo. The cooperation between the two brothers is going badly and the company is going through hard times in the post-war years. By the mid-1950s, Epiphone is still making very few instruments. | In 1957, Epiphone is sold to CMI, Gibson’s parent company, for $20,000.00. A full line of newly designed acoustic and electric guitars is launched in 1958. In 1960, Epiphone’s production moved to the Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At the beginning of 1970 the production under license from Gibson moved from the USA to Japan. From 1983 there is also produced in Korea and then in 1995 also in Indonesia. In 2004, Gibson opened a factory in Qingdao, China for the production of Epiphone guitars. Although the vast production of Epiphone guitars takes place in these countries, some more exclusive models are still being made in the USA.
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The stamped serial number can consist of a series of numbers, or letter(s) and numbers.
Only numbers
For an eleven digit serial number, the encoding is as follows:
Example: 11051500160
The first two digits are the last 2 digits of the year. (11)
The next two digits represent the month. (05)
The 5th and 6th digit represent the factory code.. (15)
(See list numbered factory codes)
The last 5 digits form the series sequence number.
Serial number 11 05 15 00160 is the 160 th guitar built in May 2011
at the factory of Qingdao in China .
(Since 2004 Epiphone guitars have been produced in China)
Five digit serial numbers.
Five digits with a space after the first digit and custom shop on the back of the headstock, applied from 1990 to 1999.
The first digit is the last digit of the production year, the following four digits are the serial number.
Five digits no space after the first digit were used from 1951 to 1956 and from 1961 to 1967 for both acoustic and electric models.
Six digit serial numbers
From 1961 to early 1970, Epiphone used 6-digit serial numbers in the Gibson serial number line. However, many serial numbers were duplicated during this period, making the exact production year difficult to trace. It is certain that the models with a 6 digit serial number starting with 0 were produced in 1967.
Seven digit serial numbers do not have a factory code.
Here is the first digit the last year of the decade. The 2nd and 3rd numbers represent the month.
These were manufactured in Korea by Samick between 1984 and 1995.
Eight and nine digit serial numbers without a factory code.
These were used respectively from 1990 and 1988 and also manufactured by Samick in Korea.
Letter(s) and numbers
One letter five digits
This combination was applied to the Elite/Elitist models.
The letter indicates the factory code and the first digit is the last digit of the year (since 2002).
The factory code can be an F or a T here.
(See list Factory code letter)
Example: Serial number T 3 2222 is the 2222 th guitar of 2003
built in the factory of Terada Gakki Seisakusyo, Japan .
One letter six digits
The letter indicates the factory code and the first and second digit are the last two digits of the year.
Example: Serial number Z051234 is the 1234th guitar built in 2005 at the Zaozhuang Saehan factory in China.
(Between 2001 and 2010 only 1 digit was used for the production year)
Two letters five digits
The letters indicate the factory code and the first digit is the last digit of the year.
Example: Serial number CI21234 is the 1234th guitar built in 2002 at the Cort, Indonesia factory.
One letter seven digits
The letter indicates the factory code and the first digit is the last digit of the year.
The 3rd and 4th digits represent the month.
The last 4 digits form the series sequence number.
Because the year is only represented by 1 digit, guitars with this coding from the 80s, 90s or a decade of 2000. (depending on the factory code)
Example: Serial number S6031234 is the 1234th guitar built in 1986, 1996 or 2006 at the Samick factory in Korea.
Two letters six digits
The letter indicates the factory code and the next two digits are
the last two digits of the year.
The second letter (fourth character) stands for the month.
(A = January, B = February, etc.)
The last 4 digits form the series sequence number
Example: Serial number R 04 G 0123 is the 123 th guitar of July 2004 , built in the Peerless, Korea factory.
One letter eight digits
The letter indicates the factory code, the next two digits are the last two digits of the year.
The 3rd and 4th digits represent the month.
The last 4 digits form the series sequence number.
Example: C99040233 is the 233rd guitar of April 1999, built in the Cort factory, Korea.
(This coding method was used until 2010)
Two letters seven digits
The letter indicates the factory code, the next two digits are the last two digits of the year.
The second letter (fourth character) stands for the month. (A = January, B = February, etc.)
The last 5 digits form the series sequence number.
Example: S07C00122 is the 122th guitar of March 2004, built at
the Samick factory in Korea.
(This coding method was used until 2010)
Two letters eight digits
The 2 letters indicate the factory code, the next two digits are the last two digits of the year.
The 5th and 6th digits represent the month.
The last 4 digits form the series sequence number.
Example: SI02060234 is the 234th guitar of June 2002, built at the Samick factory in Cileungsi near Bogor, Indonesia.
Two letter nine digits
This coding is the same as the coding of two letter eight digits
with the difference that here is 5 digits for it sequence number
are used.
Acoustic guitars
Japan
The acoustic guitars from Epiphone, which were manufactured by Matsumoku in Japan from 1970 to 1987, are not reliable serial numbering system, but can be approximately dated by color and inscription from the Epiphone label.
Blue label 1970-1975
The first blue labels that were used were leftover labels from the Kalamazoo factory.
In the bottom left corner of these labels is printed «Union Made» and stamped, «Made in Japan».
Until supplies ran out, they were used from 1970 until the beginning of 1971. Some of these first labels do not include Made in Japan or Union Made.
After supplies ran out, new blue labels were used where in the lower right corner «Made in Japan» is printed.
Brown or white «Lincolnwood» label 1976-1979
The Lincolnwood label was also used for the acoustic guitars of
the Taiwanese «Ep» series from 1979-1980.
These labels in the bottom right corner say, ‘Made in Taiwan’.
From 1980 to 1987 a mottled label was used.
China
In 2004 Gibson opened a factory in Qingdao, China, which produces Epiphone guitars.
No labels have been used here, but stickers with «Made in China» are glued to the neck of the guitars.
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DATING SQUIER GUITARS BY REFERENCE OF SERIAL NUMBERS
From 1982 Fender Squiers are also produced outside the USA, in that year the production startedin Japan. The Korean Fender Squiers were produced from 1988, but there were no serial numbers until mid-1993 documented. Other low-budget countries followed, like China, Indonesia and India.
The serial number registration of these countries also leaves sometimes to be desired.
Where to find the serial number
The serial number is generally stamped on the front or back of the headstock,or in some cases on the neck plate.
If you want to know the production year of your Squier guitar,you can decipher it with the serial number decoder, or find it in explanation about the dating system below.
| Fender-Squier history in short Jerome Bonaparte Squier and his son Victor Carroll Squier, two English immigrants who started a violin building and repair company in Boston in 1881. In 1890 Victor opened a store in Battle Creek, Michigan and a short time later a violin factory at 427 Capital Ave SW. (V.C. Squier Company). Violin, banjo and guitar strings were also produced here. |
In the early 1950s the company also started making strings for the electric guitars of Leo Fender and became in 1963 an official supplier
for Fender Electric Instruments. In 1965, shortly before the acquisition
of Fender by CBS, Fender purchased V.C. Squier Company.
Before the Fender Squier line of guitars was introduced in 1982,
Fender made cheaper guitars such as the Fender Lead series at its
plant in Fullerton, California.
Until the introduction of the Fender Squier series, Fender had never produced low-priced guitars based on the Stratocaster and Telecaster models. He had always used different model designs for the cheaper models.
Japanese labor and production costs were much lower than in America, and to compete with, Fender moved the cheaper Fender guitar production from America to Japan.
Sales in Japan were disappointing, Fender could not compete with Japanese competitors such as Tцkai and Greco.
Fender started negotiations with various Japanese distributors of musical instruments and reached an agreement with Yamano
Gakki and Kanda Shokai to found Fender Japan.
One of the conditions of the agreement was that Kanda Shokai
stops producing its own Greco Fender guitars. Negotiations with Tцkai were interrupted and FujiGen Gakki was chosen.
The first Squier models appeared in August 1982.
Over time, the Squier series has slowly evolved and contains
original model designs. The production has also been moved from Japan to various other Asian countries such as Korea, China, Indonesia and India.
Victor Carroll Squier
The Squiers «Made in USA» have been produced since 1985 in Corona, California.
«Made in USA» – E = Eighties, 6 or 7 digits.
«Made in USA» – N = Nineties, 6 or 7 digits.
Some USA Squiers had no serial number stamped on the headstock but a number without a prefix on the neck plate.
A date with such a number is difficult to determine.
Made in Japan
| LETTER | YEAR | DIGITS | LETTER | YEAR | DIGITS |
| A | 1985-1986 | 6 | B | 1985-1986 | 6 |
| C | 1985-1986 | 6 | E | 1984-1987 | 6 |
| F | 1986-1987 | 6 | G | 1987-1988 | 6 |
| H | 1988-1989 | 6 | I | 1989-1990 | 6 |
| J | 1989-1990 | 6 | K | 1990-1991 | 6 |
| L | 1991-1992 | 6 | M | 1992-1993 | 6 |
| N | 1993-1994 | 6 | O | 1993-1994 | 6 |
| P | 1993-1994 | 6 | Q | 1993-1994 | 6 |
| S | 1994-1995 | 6 | T | 1994-1995 | 6 |
| U | 1995-1996 | 6 | N | 1995-1996 | 5 |
| V | 1996-1997 | 6 | JV | 1982-1984 | 5 |
| SQ | 1983-1984 | 5 |
Crafted in Japan
| LETTER | YEAR | DIGITS | LETTER | YEAR | DIGITS |
| A | 1997-1998 | 6 | B | 1998-1999 | 6 |
| C | 1985-1986 | 6 | N | 1995-1996 | 5 |
| F | 1986-1987 | 6 | O | 1997-2000 | 6 |
| P | 1999-2002 | 6 | Q | 2002-2004 | 6 |
| R | 2004-2006 | 6 | S | 2006-2008 | 6 |
| T | 2007-2008 | 6 |
Made in Japan
| T | 2006-2008 | 6 | U | 2007-2008 | 6 |
In 1987 Fender opened the plant in Ensenada, Mexico where built amps and combos. The production of Squier guitars started here in 1991.
MN — M = Mexico, N = Nineties MZ — M = Mexico, Z = 2000’s
On February 11, 1994 the Ensenada plant burned down and production was temporarily moved to Corona.
CA – C = China A = Axl (made by Axl).
CD, CT en CJ – C = China. Probably made by Yako (Taiwan).
«Made in China»
CAE – 10 digits.
NC – 6 digits. YN – Y = Yako (Taiwan) N = Nineties, 6 digits.
«Crafted in China»
CY – C = China Y = Yako (Taiwan), 8 or 9 ditgits.
CY appears on all models produced in China and is by far the most common form.
CXS – C = China X = Axl S= Squier, 9 digits.
CGS – C = China G = factory code S= Squier, 7 or 8 digits.
CGRA, CGRB, CGRG, CGRH, CGRI, CGRJ, CGRK and CGRL
— C = China. GR = Grand Reward (factory)
— Last letter A, B, G, H, I, J, K, L = factory code , 8 digits.
COS – 8 digits.
COB – 9 digits.
Serial numbers with COS or COB prefix are Crafted by Cor-Tek, China.
Samick factory, Korea
The dating of the Korean instruments built before 1993 is uncertain because information about them is incomplete or missing.
Korean Squiers with a black logo on the headstock always have a thin laminated body. They are the lowest quality Korean Squiers. They were built between 1992 and 1995.
The serial numbers start with CN2, CN3 and VN4.
Silver logos were used for models built in the late 80s and for the Fender Squier Series strats, built in 1992 and 1993. These serial numbers start with CN2, CN3 and VN3.
Squiers with a gold-colored logo have an alder body or ash wood if it
is from the ProTone series.
The Squiers with a gold-colored logo were built from mid-1995.
Stratocasters, Telecasters, Bullets, P-Basses and Jazz basses were built from 1987 to 1998.
Stagemasters and Showmasters were built between 1999 and 2002.
The models from the 24 series were built between 2002 and 2004.
The Series 24 guitars were released by Fender in January 2002 in honor of Squier’s 20-year anniversary.
The Master Series models were built between 2004 and 2007.
«Made in Korea» and «Crafted in Korea»
CN — C = Cor-Tek (Cort) N = Nineties, 6 or 7 digits.
KC en KV — KC = Korean Cor-Tek (Cort), 8 digit. KV = Korean Saehan(Sunghan), 8 digits.
«Made in Korea»
VN — V = Saehan(Sunghan) N = Nineties, 6 or 7 digits.
S and E -S = Samick, 6 of 7 digits. E = Young Chang, 6 or 7 digits.
Squiers with prefix S and E are from the late eighties and early nineties.
E-letter serial numbers were used on Young Chang’s Fenix brand guitars.
M — 7 digits. Used in the early 90s, characterized by the high-gloss maple neck and plywood slim 40 mm body.
Some Squier IIs were made in India around 1989-1990, with
«MADE IN INDIA» on the headstock. The Squier IIs made in India seem to follow the numbering scheme in the USA.
The serial number is on a sticker on the back of the neck, close to the attachment point with the body.
Some more recent Squiers, including the Vintage Modified series
(the serial numbers start here with SH), were in Introduced in 2007.
The VM series has «Crafted in India» on the back of headstock.
With this VM series the serial number is stamped on the headstock
and therefore has no sticker.
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