The second or the third number, 7, 8 or 9, (depending on whether the month number is one or 2 digits), identifies the year of production as either 1967, 1968 or 1969 etc.

The potential is there to cause problems for the legitimate owner of the instrument.You can find out the year, but no more, from the 'Cracking The Code' area on Ovation's website, or within the 'Reference' area within the OFC site. If you want to know the production year of your Gibson guitar or mandolin, you can decipher it with the serial number decoder, or find it in the. Often in serial numbers, the first or last number will be the year its from. It gets a little more upsetting when they can add a legit serial number to it, though. This Ovation number means to a electric guitar made between 1973. For some Ovation guitars, only the first few numbers of the serial will tell you the date. But sometimes they put it on the back of the neck.

It is typically found inside the body underneath the strings. So if the EIA number is 606 5807, the first three digits (606) is the manufacturer code. The first two digits stand for the last two digits of the year of manufacture (if made in the 20th century), while the last two digits stand for the week of the year. Right down to the day it left the factory.BillPosted 2:54 PM (#128317 - in reply to #128308) Subject: Re: Serial Number SearchJoined:July 2003 Posts: 1922 Location: Canton (Detroit), MIAgreed, of course a crooked eBayer can lie about make and model now, and there are those who do. The serial number will be a set of numbers and letters separated by dashes. In many cases, you will see four digits following that code. In 1898 production began at Carl Gustafs.Random quote: 'Got time to breathe, got time for music.' -Briscoe Darling.Serial Number SearchJump to page: Now viewing page 1 25 messages per page::-Message formatPosted 7:57 PM (#128308) Subject: Serial Number SearchJoined:November 2005 Posts: 14 Location: CanadaIs there a database for Ovation Guitar Serial Numbers that I can just enter a Serial Number and it will tell me about the guitar? Originally posted by Bluebird: No manufacturer that I know of records such specific info with their serial numbers except for Martin.Wayne You can get all the info possible from Alembic, also. These are the m/94 (Model 1894) carbine, m/96 (Model 1896) long rifle, m/38 (Model 1938) short rifle and m/41 (Model 1941) sniper rifle.

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Check for matching serial numbers on left side of receiver, top of bolt flat, barrel, top of safety, top of bolt sleeve, cocking piece, upper band, lower band, butt plate, rear sight leaf, rear sight guide and stock bottom, with last two digits of serial number on virtually all other components, right down to the firing pin and cleaning rod.

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