Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

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Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

Postby AlienVintage » Wed Mar 09, 2016 5:25 am

I was curious how many of the 119 original vintage 1959-1969 blonde Sheratons that I could account for, just from poking around on the web. I came up with 10 guitars so far. I'm hoping to update this list as additional guitars are accounted for. If you know of any others, I would love to add them. Also, while I hope this list is accurate, it is possible that it might contain some mistakes - if you see any, please feel free to correct me. Thanks!

1. 174696 (my 1964)
2. 348281 (a 1966 at Dave's Guitar Shop)
3. 40919x (maybe #409191?) (a 1966, listed as a 1965 on eBay)
4. 176830 (a 1964 at RetroFret)
5. 67838 (a 1964 at OK Guitars)
6. 91721 (a 1962 sold by Southside Guitars)
7. 70761 (a 1964 at Heritage Auctions)
8. 898699 (a 1967[?] at Gryphon Stringed Instruments)
9. 307015 (I think it is a 1965; found on a French auction website, was mislabeled as: "807 015")
10. Unknown serial # 1965 with black rear-headstock stinger (from the website vintage-guitar.de)

P.S. It seems like one way to quickly identify a 1966-1969 blonde Sheraton, even just by eyeballing it: I believe it will have *black* reflector knobs, whereas a 1965 and earlier will have *gold* reflector knobs. Of course, I believe you may see other differences (nut width, differences in pickup era, possibly chrome hardware instead of gold hardware), but the knobs (assuming they haven't been changed, which would obviously be very simple to do) seem to be a pretty simple "tell"...

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Re: Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

Postby AlienVintage » Wed Mar 09, 2016 5:42 am

A couple of others that I would love to account for:

1) J.D. Simo playing a '66-69 blonde (check out the knobs, they are black reflectors, which I believe indicates 1966+) at Carter Vintage Guitars:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vQLamIy37dM

2) Greg Koch playing a '64 blonde at Wildwood Guitars (hopefully this link works, it is a Facebook video link):

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 0180265%2F

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Re: Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

Postby RAB » Wed Mar 09, 2016 12:31 pm

Add another. The '62 blonde Sheraton E212TN (Frequensator tailpiece) I owned for a number of years S/N 91711, mint condition! Interesting to note Gibson's shipping ledger showed just one blonde Sheraton shipped in 1962. Based on our forum's "inventory" we now have at least two! :mrgreen:

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Re: Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

Postby AlienVintage » Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:29 pm

Cool - thanks! :)

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Re: Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

Postby JimR56 » Wed Mar 09, 2016 7:58 pm

I've saved photos of a few others ('59, '61, '64), unfortunately I don't have serial numbers. I'll keep my eyes open.

Number 3 on your list... 40919x (maybe #409191?) (a 1966, listed as a 1965 on eBay)... is also on gbase (https://www.gbase.com/gear/guild-sheraton-1965-blonde). That's the guy I posted about on the LPF (making false claims about his two Sheratons, and being a jerk about it when I tried to communicate with him). Anyway, to my eye, that sixth digit looks like it might be a 2 (not that it will make a difference about the year):
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It does in fact appear that Gryphon got the date wrong on theirs (should be either a '67 or a '69, right?)

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Re: Attempting to account for (some of) the 119 blonde Sheratons (1959-1969)

Postby AlienVintage » Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:33 am

Thanks guys!
I'll keep adding as I find guitars out there. Should be an interesting ongoing project...


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