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

[Guitarjunkie143]

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[GGJaguar]

Welcome to LTG! Looks like a circa 1961 X-175. No idea about the value, but you can check sold listings on Reverb.com for comps.

 

[cupric]

Looks very nice! Does it have the original case? What is the story behind this guitar?

 

[DeArmond Hammer]

Does it have a label with the model number and serial number inside the f-hole? The headstock's serial number suggests a date of 1970, according to Guild's published list, but the guitar's style is earlier.

 

[SFIV1967]

Looks like a circa 1961 X-175.

The headstock's serial number suggests a date of 1970, but the guitar's style is earlier.

That's really odd, seems to be 48525 which would be 1970, but the lip-top headstock and the Kolb tuners would not fit to that date (they would more point to early 60ies). Not sure what the story of the guitar is. Yes, need to see the paper label inside the f-hole (but I don't see one?).
Wonderful guitar in any case!
Ralf

 

[hansmoust]

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

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

 

[SFIV1967]

So the serial number on the back of the headstock is only a 18525? Looked like 48525, I guess that is what fooled Richard any myself...

Ralf

 

[Nuuska]

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.

 

[Shakeylee]

i bet that guitar sounds fantastic!!

 

[walrus]

Very cool guitar! And +1 on the "weirdness' of that headstock serial number...

walrus

 

[GAD]

So the serial number on the back of the headstock is only a 18525? Looked like 48525, I guess that is what fooled Richard any myself...

Ralf

Enhance!

 

[Jeff Haddad]

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.

 

[hansmoust]

Enhance!

If you've really studied serial numbers, then you would know that the '4' should not have the horizontal 'foot' at the bottom!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[GAD]

If you've really studied serial numbers, then you would know that the '4' should not have the horizontal 'foot' at the bottom!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

I just edited the contrast on the photo to see better. Interesting observation, though. I'd wonder if someone altered that serial number for nefarious reasons then.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

I just edited the contrast on the photo to see better. Interesting observation, though. I'd wonder if someone altered that serial number for nefarious reasons then.

I looks to me like somebody tried to turn the 1 into a 4!

 

[fronobulax]

I can easily see someone stamping a four, having an "oh heck" moment and then overstamping with a one. The analogy to handwriting when you don't have an eraser seems reasonable.

 

[Walter Broes]

Very cool guitar!!

 

[DeArmond Hammer]

I can easily see someone stamping a four, having an "oh heck" moment and then overstamping with a one. The analogy to handwriting when you don't have an eraser seems reasonable.

That's an interesting thought. Did a Guild employee (in 1962) have 10 stamps and manually stamp each serial number's digits on the headstock? He might have been holding the 4 stamp from headstock 18524 when he began stamping 18525. I can imagine quite a few serial number mis-stampings emerging from that process.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Look at the two "4's". They are clearly not the same so it wasn't overstamped with the same die set. The upper "4" doesn't even look like a stamp! It looks like the two lines were created by tapping a straight bladed screwdriver with a hammer!

 

[Guildedagain]

I have a full set of letter and number stamps. Mistakes and corrections do happen.