Epiphone Serial Numbers Identification

Epiphone serial number identifier
  • This newest serial number system used by Epiphone is not yet completely deciphered. 'F' doesn't refer to 'Fine, Korea' - nor to 'Fuji-gen, Japan' - New 'F' models are made in China. This serial number system doesn't exactly tell the year - and doesn't tell the month at all. Beginning with F300000 in late 2009 used on LP Std'59/Std'60/Tribute models.
  • After Epiphone and Gibson merged under the same umbrella, Gibson started following their lead and placing serial numbers on their guitars. During this time period, they ink stamped the digits on the back of the peghead and used the last number of the year as the first number in the serial sequence on their solid body models.

Feb 16, 2020 — Look Up Epiphone Serial Numbers Epiphone Guitar Serial Number Lookup The easiest way to find the year of manufacture of a particular. Epiphone serial numbers are located on the back of the headstock, the top F-hole for semi-hollow bodies, or inside the soundhole of an acoustic. The serial number is 880509595 and it's located on a stick-on strip on the back of the headstock. The front of the headstock has 'Epiphone by Gibson' at the top and the Epiphone logo at the bottom. Find the date your guitar was made by simply supplying your serial number. For Yamano Gakki Epiphone Japan semi acoustic models from 1987 to approximately 1997, the serial numbers are in a YCPPP format. They were made by Terada and usually have an Orange Epiphone label. Y = Year of manufacture C = Model code.

Epihone history in short.
Epiphone serial numbers identification lookup

Epiphone Serial Numbers Identification Lookup

Anastasios Stathopoulos born in 1863, was a Greek luthier who started a mandolin and violin company in 1873 in Pellana, Greece.
In 1903 he emigrated with his wife to New York. As luthier he started a year later a company that mainly produced mandolins. The company ran well, and therefore he took the Italian professional Henry cappielo employed.
After the death of Anastasios in 1915, his son Epaminondas (Epi) take control over the company. Under his management the company grows to one of the biggest of its kind. A few years later, Epaminondas opens a factory where mainly banjos were made. In 1924 he registered the brand name Epiphone, a combination of his own name (Epi) with the Greek word for sound (phone). Shortly thereafter, Epi buys the banjo company Favoran and introduces the banjo Epiphone Recording line. Because of their quality and elegant design, it will be a great success.
Due to the success of the banjo Recording line, a Recording line for guitars was also established in 1928 and a full line of f-hole archtop guitars was introduced in 1931. There are 12 models, including the top models: Broadway, Triumph and DeLuxe. Epiphone has been competing with
Gibson for some time and with the introduction of the Epiphone Emperor
in 1935, dealt a serious blow.
Epiphone introduced the Electar series in 1937, an electric guitar with an adjustable pickup.
Epaminondas dies in 1943 and the business is continued by his two sons Orpheus (Orphie) and Frixo. The cooperation between the two brothers is going badly and the company is going through hard times in the post-war years. By the mid-1950s, Epiphone is still making very few instruments. 		In 1957, Epiphone is sold to CMI, Gibson's parent company, for $20,000.00. A full line of newly designed acoustic and electric guitars is launched in 1958. In 1960, Epiphone's production moved to the Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
At the beginning of 1970 the production under license from Gibson moved from the USA to Japan. From 1983 there is also produced in Korea and then in 1995 also in Indonesia. In 2004, Gibson opened a factory in Qingdao, China for the production of Epiphone guitars.
Although the vast production of Epiphone guitars takes place in these countries, some more exclusive models are still being made in the USA.

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Hi,
After reading good things about the Probucker Epiphone pickups I bought a pair from a Chinese seller. The images in the listing was sort of confusing with some showing two ProBucker pickups and some showing one Alnico Classic PRO and one Probucker. I asked the seller if he could deliver zebra colored pickups with both the neck and bridge pickups being Probuckers. He confirmed he could and I ordered a pair.
Now they have arrived and this is how they look:

Since there are no product number stickers on the back I find it hard to tell what pickups these really are. I measured the resistance values of the pickups and this is what i found.
(What I guess is the) Neck pickup
7.76 kOhm (split coils 3.89/3.86 kOhm)
(What I guess is the) Bridge pickup
8.71 kOhm (split coils 4.48/4.26 kOhm)
I read some posts on forums covering resistance values on Epiphone pickups. Nothing is matching perfectly but the neck seems pretty close to the values for a Alnico Classic PRO neck.
So my questions:
- are these likely to be genuine?
- given the resistance values what models is it that I got?

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