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Location: Tennessee | Searching the Internet and this forum, the best I could find were the letter + 3 digit serial numbers ended with "L" around '73, but no mention of "M" series. Is it a safe assumption that Ovation did a series of "M" that didn't make the list? As it has a rectangular New Hartford label, I assume it would be sometime in the early 70's; would that be correct? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Since nobody is answering, I will let you know that some people have seen this post.
As to you guitar... I have an Artist with an "M" series serial number and a rectangular paper label.
I asked a similar question...
You are correct in that it is from the Early 70's.
Probably around 1973.
This is about the time that Ovation transitioned to the Silver Foil label.
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Location: Tennessee | arthurseery - 2015-05-09 1:42 AM
Since nobody is answering, I will let you know that some people have seen this post.
As to you guitar... I have an Artist with an "M" series serial number and a rectangular paper label.
I asked a similar question...
You are correct in that it is from the Early 70's.
Probably around 1973.
This is about the time that Ovation transitioned to the Silver Foil label.
Thank you, sir. |
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Location: Texas | Allen, I briefly owned a 71 Legend with an alphnumeric M tag We have talked about it before on the forum. So there are several threads about these last tags. I thought 71 was the lastest that they ran, but Ovation was very efficient and rarely wasted a thing back in those days, so there is probably no telling. I do believe that the silver foil labels started appearing possibly late in 71 and for sure in 72. There is a thread somewhere that speaks to a transition time where the foil and paper were both being used at the same time. 
Edited by jay 2015-05-09 3:57 PM
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Location: Tennessee | Thanks, Jay |
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1122-4 with "M" s/n and rectangular label