Once you have correctly identified your guitar, you can look up a suggested value in the books above.

Guitar values can range from practically nothing to an astronomical sum for the right guitar - and to an untrained eye, guitars at either end of the spectrum can look very similar. On the tag but this one was printed without it.īefore buying or selling a guitar, knowing it's value is important. It does not have a serial number anywhere usually it is right above the Model No.

Anyone familiar with Ventura guitars, not the Bruno imported versions? This is the tag inside the guitar. Interestingly, most Japanese copies of the time didn’t have serial numbers - a great way to tell if an instrument is truly a “lawsuit” guitar, even today. Any help would be appreciated.įernandes created faithful recreations of Fender instruments and Takamine and Suzuki both made acoustic guitars nearly identical to certain Martin models. I know it had to be purchased sometime between 1974-1980 as this belonged to my wife's deceased mother and was purchased new, but we were never able to get a solid answer on year of manufacture, and now that I'm playing it, I just was curious. on the tag but this one was printed without it. All that leads to this question, does anyone have any idea what year or model would have been assembled with the block marked as 50.Anyone familiar with Ventura guitars, not the Bruno imported versions? Just tonight I found two online with the double dots at the 5th frets. That led me to look over images of old Arias. I finally found an old Aria with the open book headstock, copied after Gibson. I have poured over images online for many hours. This guitar has double dots at the 5th fret as well as the normal 12th fret. But one detail kept throwing the Gibson people, and me, off. The binding and markings look like an old Gibson. I first thought, as did a lot of other people, that it was an old Gibson as it has the 'open book headstock.' It has an adjustable bridge. No one has been able to tell me what this guitar brand is as that number on the block is the only markings. It has no name on it and only has the numbers 50.8 18 in black on the block in the sound hole. My son gave me a fantastic looking old acoustic guitar that he found at a yard sale.

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