Wow. I think I haven't seen such crazy figuring before, I can't even tell what that is, doesn't look like bird eyes, more like mountains photographed from a satellite or something... really stunning and all the other BS colored SA-75s don't have that.
The hang tag attached to the guitar has the letters ”Mint Collection” ,
and the model name is SA-75, so it may have been a transitional model.
Or they just used up the hang tags they had printed for the Mint Collection. This guitar is certainly different from yours.
see some differences from my SA-75. Is this guitar and my guitar made by Tokai?
I don't know about your guitar, but the BS colored guitar with the hang tag on Reverb.com has pics of the PU cavities and they are telling that it was not made by Tokai.
When the deformed crown inlay is inserted from the guitar of the Mint collection,
does it mean that the SA-75 as a clear sound project is completed?
It seems there is currently no SA-75 with a later serial number than 1990 out "in the wild" (only a 1991 SA-90 on Reverb) but it seems like they transitioned to the closed 'o' and the totally different inlay in 1990. What may seem super odd is that your guitar has the open 'o' and the somewhat restyled crown (you're right, looks like someone took a bite out of it
) but also what looks like a higher serial number. The explanation for that may be easy though, the production number wrapped around at 0 9999 and started from 0000 again (since there are just 4 digits).
Also, am I crazy or* does
this guitar have the same serial number (0 9317) as the
Bigsby-equipped one above? Looks like the Seattle seller bought it for cheap from Honolulu, mounted a Bigsby and tried to flip it for 3x the price.
(* Yeah, I know, that's not mutually exclusive)