Help me identify my Guild model and price range please!!! Thanks!

[shihan]

It also might have been stolen at some point. It looks like the last number has has something done to it too.
I don’t mean to accuse the OP of any wrongdoing; a guitar that old has a history.

 

[Guitarjunkie143]

when I enlarge this last picture - and surround is black - I see a clear "4"

BUT - it is a quite wonky 4 - as if someone had added lines to original 1 - the bottom line or pedestal is quite long - that number 4 seems to be different letter-style than the others. . . Just thinking aloud here.

Would be neat to see how those two numbers were originally - so dig up your 1144 guitars and take a good picture.

 

[Guitarjunkie143]

Hello Guitarjunkie143,

Welcome! Your Guild is an X-175 from the year 1962. I don't appraise guitars that I'm not actually holding in my hands, but from what I can see in the photos, the guitar seems to be all original. So if the guitar is solid and doesn't need any serious work to make it playable and it does have an original hard shell case, you may be looking at a guitar that's worth at least US $ 2000.00.
Could be more if it's a really good example!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

Hey it doesn't have the original case just the guitar? Any idea who might buy it? I can give a good deal... I play electric mostly blues and metal and its not really my style.

 

[Guitarjunkie143]

It also might have been stolen at some point. It looks like the last number has has something done to it too.
I don’t mean to accuse the OP of any wrongdoing; a guitar that old has a history.

Yeah the 4 looks questionable... I got it from an apartment building that burned down in my neighborhood. Lots of people lost their stuff... some died it was bad but this was something that got saved out of a spot.

 

[Guitarjunkie143]

Welcome, beautiful guitar! Great first post!

The first digit '4' is definitely weird, hopefully the paper label inside is intact and shows a serial number.

 

[Shakeylee]

Hey it doesn't have the original case just the guitar? Any idea who might buy it? I can give a good deal... I play electric mostly blues and metal and its not really my style.

if you play blues, this is a fantastic guitar.
This guitar could do blues,bluesabilly ,jazz, swing and rockabilly easily.

 

[Shakeylee]

Anybody who plays those styles would buy it. It would also be a great 50’s rock and roll machine.

 

[SFIV1967]

Thanks for posting of the label.

So it looks that at some point some previous owner tried to hide the real identity and changed the serial numbers.

Ralf