- For sale is a Guild X-550B 1955 Blonde w / Vintage Lifton Case in Very Good Condition! Serial Number: 2414 The Lifton Case alone is very valuable and fits like a glove with this beauty!
- Guild expanded, opening another factory in Westerly, Rhode Island. There, Guild could continue to grow and meet their increased production numbers while the main office remained in New Jersey. Unfortunately, Dronge died as a result. His untimely death took place while commuting to the factory in his private plane in May of 1972.
- The Guild company has an amazing amount of serial number info, mostly because for many years of production they used a different serial scheme for each of their different models. Below we outline a simple way to narrow down the date range of an acoustic Guild.
As most Guild bass owners know, the bakelite material is very brittle & breaks up at the output jack. For these, we usually use our color 122, black/parchment 5-ply, which looks the same but is much more durable. Click here for a list of Guild serial numbers. Guild was owned for awhile by Fender, it is now owned by Cordoba Music Group.
A question we have been asked about recently is that of serial numbers for GUILD and I wanted to help clarify the situation.
To this day no official GUILD document has been reported that would give any indication into GUILD’s early serial numbering system.
The earliest GUILD guitars that have been reported so far have potentiometer codes that don’t date back any further than the 5th week of 1953 , all of these were electric archtops.
The serial numbers of these early instruments have a 4 digits and no instruments with serial numbers below 1001 are known to exist.
Since the GUILD COMPANY was officially registered on 24th
October 1952, the start of production was announced
On 17th April 1953 , it would be correct to assume that
Setrial numbers 1000 or 1001 would be the first .
All early GUILD guitars have the serial number written
On a label, but since the M 75 did not have a label the
Number was stamped into the back of the headstock.
This does not tally with the list printed in the “ Gruhn’s
Guild Serial Numbers Dating
Guide To Vintage Guitars “ however the list compiled
After 1955 and further seem to be reliable , so if you
Have any queries , please let us know … from the Essaness
Guild Serial Numbers
Team … Happy Playing .