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Old 06-03-2020, 03:50 PM
Steve DeRosa Steve DeRosa is offline
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Originally Posted by G55ddl View Post
...I contacted Gibson and they've indicated that the guitar with serial number 8154 34 was made in 1951...
Had you originally posted the number in the above form I would have recognized it as a batch number - as you state, Gibson didn't use serial numbers on their low-end instruments until later in their production runs - which, although it's somewhat less specific than a serial number, at least provides a fairly good idea of when a particular guitar was made...

Sorry for the confusion...
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