D 55 question

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A guy over at AGF bought a D 55 with a Guild Shield sticker with no location city. He wanted to know where and approximately when it was made.
 

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A guy over at AGF bought a D 55 with a Guild Shield sticker with no location city. He wanted to know where and approximately when it was made.

I believe the brand new ones by Cordoba, built in Oxnard, only say "California" instead of Oxnard.
If there's a wood plate over the end of the heelblock with a laser etched s/n, that's another indicator.
Yeah, ok, see post #11 here:
http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?189185-Oxnard-Serial-Numbers&highlight=cordoba
"When" would be sometime this year, this is first year for Oxnard D55's.
 
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But it has gold open gear Gotoh tuners ... of course they may have been retro fitted but if not, wouldn't that make it a New Hartford guitar?
 

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Educated guess is around 1971 or 72.

Those didn't have G-shields IIRC, but yeah that's right, they only said USA for a short while there.
In fact Br1ck's got a '71 D35 himself, and I see you've got a '71 D40.
Think those just show oak leaf wreaths, right?
Yeah, like this:
aRHYj3r.jpg

Think those were actually a little later than '71, but that's not the point here.
(and I guess that's a laurel wreath, to boot)
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But it has gold open gear Gotoh tuners ... of course they may have been retro fitted but if not, wouldn't that make it a New Hartford guitar?
New Hartfords showed New Hartford on label.
Besides which Guild website shows Gotoh Se700 open gear tuners for D55.
 
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