Hi everyone,
I need a little help identifying a Greco Mockingbird that I may acquire via trade... I've searched in all the Greco catalogues I'm able to find online, from the mid-70s to the early-90s ones, but no luck.
While it's a kind of rare model, I've found some pretty similar guitars around the web, but two things are kind of strange: firstly, all the others I've found sport a "G" logo (which mimicks the old "R" logo B.C. Rich used in their heyday) while this one has got a "normal" Greco logo; and secondly, the serial number - which is not visible in the pictures, but the seller told me it's MA01379T - doesn't match with any of the Greco serial numbers schemes I've found online.
Can you please help me? I'd just like to have confirmation that it is indeed made in Japan, and to know the manufacturing year.
The seller says it was made in 1975, but all the similar examples I've found around are from 1980 - and I could be wrong but I think B.C. Rich wasn't already that famous by 1975...
(As you can see it was originally sold by TC Gakki, so that makes me a little more comfortable about it)
I need a little help identifying a Greco Mockingbird that I may acquire via trade... I've searched in all the Greco catalogues I'm able to find online, from the mid-70s to the early-90s ones, but no luck.
While it's a kind of rare model, I've found some pretty similar guitars around the web, but two things are kind of strange: firstly, all the others I've found sport a "G" logo (which mimicks the old "R" logo B.C. Rich used in their heyday) while this one has got a "normal" Greco logo; and secondly, the serial number - which is not visible in the pictures, but the seller told me it's MA01379T - doesn't match with any of the Greco serial numbers schemes I've found online.
Can you please help me? I'd just like to have confirmation that it is indeed made in Japan, and to know the manufacturing year.
The seller says it was made in 1975, but all the similar examples I've found around are from 1980 - and I could be wrong but I think B.C. Rich wasn't already that famous by 1975...
(As you can see it was originally sold by TC Gakki, so that makes me a little more comfortable about it)