While some of the years were fruitful for his database, others were not, especially the years around the factory fires. All the system gives us is the number made in a month, and even that is sketchy.Īll Ed can do is make educated guesses much of the time. The paper labeled banjo serial system has more info as to what the banjo is, but it doesn't say how many were made over a year's production. Shortly after 71, they went to the system they used until the end. 1971, but seems to have modified it, and when they did, Baldwin left a 1000 number gap in the sequence. Their serial system under Chuck was sequential, but gave no indication of banjo type, model, or anything else other than the style number. It's possible they may exist, stuffed away in a pile of Baldwin documents or in the hands of a former employee, but with each passing year, the chances of anything showing up dims.Įd Britt spent a lot of time for about 5 years building a data base which includes serial number, banjo particulars, and date of sale/manufacture, and a few of us and I contributed all we could to it, but it still has a lot of big holes. And when Baldwin went bankrupt, all the records were lost. When Chuck sold to Baldwin, Baldwin got all his records at the time of sale along with everything else. Plus styles made and description 2 Comments Does anyone have an accurate/ definitive serial number list for odes that transitions into the early baldwin years( 1966-1971)
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