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I doubt it - because they have different style soundhole rings: Known examples with FON 11991 have two thin wooden soundhole rings, while #74795 has the wide ivoroid soundhole ring. From what I have...

Joe - thanks. Have you also got an estimate for the A-2z model?

Felix

What the data in my A2-z SN/FON table shows: While some items with FON 11919 (for example) got a serial number in the 740xx range, others with the same FON received a serial number in a 776xx or...

I updated my table about A2-z models - now including also example without known FON. See attachment. (The approx S/N year is according to Spann).

This table seems to confirm that:

- A finished...

Regarding A2z models: I once created a chart of known examples with serial number and FON - from the Mandolin Archive and other sources - see attached screenshot. The list is ordered by ascending...

A few years ago I compiled a list of A2Z models with known FONs and serial number - see attached image. I also compared soundhole ring and tuner styles.
As you can see, the two number systems are...

Nice! Looking at my Epiphone instrument registry data, serial number 52176 is part of the last batch of wartime Strand mandolins - note the crude octagonal bridge thumbwheels, obviously a product of...

The A-50 in the 1937 Gibson catalog Y with the new wide body is pictured with these very fretboard and headstock inlays.

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The label "MADE IN U.S.A / BY GIBSON, INC. / KALAMAZOO, MICH."...

John - the rest of the catalog page is cut off. It reads: "Prices subject to change without notice".
Felix

One you don't see every day - 1935 Epiphone Strand for sale (no affiliation):...

I think both: Epiphone generally was a much smaller operation than Gibson or Martin; and they launched their Masterbilt mandolins in the early 1930s when the mandolin boom was well over. In the...

Bill - thanks for the additional photos. Very nice engraved Waverly tuners.
Regarding your earlier question in your other thread: (1) are there many of these out there?
I think not too many, my...

Steve - Epiphone first promoted the "E under the lid" cases in the 1939 catalog: http://wiedler.ch/nyepireg/docs/1939_cat.pdf (see p.43). The Dutch Archtop Guitar Museum lists examples that came with...

Here some photos of the mandolin I had saved years ago.
Felix

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Since vintage Epiphone instruments are now and then discussed in this forum, I'd like to let you know that I just launched a website on the subject: NY Epi Reg - The Unofficial New York Epiphone...

I don't know if already posted/discussed before: I recently received pictures of a bowl back with a Stathopoulo stamp and label dated 1912. (Thanks to Matt Umanov for making these pics available!) ...

Dave Rawlings and his Epiphone Olympic have been mentioned - however we are not talking 16" archtop there. Dave's Olympic is only 13.5 inches wide! Very different guitar than a 16" - with their...

Nice! Karin Bergquist's tenor guitar is a c. 1932 Epiphone Beverly - flat top with f-holes.

Felix

Noah - thanks, great collection and website, excellent photos and info, too! Included in my database.
Jim - love those exclamation point headstocks... my '34 Zenith has one, too. Below a few of our...

This c. 1945 Strand is the latest example of any Epi mandolin I know of before the company discontinued all mandos until c. 1950 when they reintroduced the Strand and Rivoli as oval hole models. ...