The #13950-13999 range was a 50 unit group of Round-Ups (6130), and finally at #14000-14049 there was a 50 unit batch of Country Clubs. The guitars made just after this interesting cluster were a mixed batch of a couple of Burl Ives (6004) guitars, a couple of Baritone Ukes (6945) and the rest of the #138xx batch in addition to #13900-13949 were Jet solidbodies, including several Tenor jets (6127). Gretsch G6136T-59 Vintage Select 59 Falcon with Bigsby 2022 Vintage White.
#1957 GRETSCH WHITE FALCON TV#
perhaps preparing for the 1954 NAMM show? Maybe. Gretsch G6136T-LTV White Falcon Lacquer with Bigsby, TV Jones Pickups - 2013. These have DeArmond pickups, engraved pearl position. Within this group of 50 labels there seems to be a lot of unique and "custom" activity happening at the Brooklyn factory. Instrument Description: 1959 Gretsch White Falcon, Single Cutaway, Two PAF Filtertron pickups, Cadillac G Tailpiece, Gold sparkle binding, Jeweled knobs, Replaced Gretsch pickguard, Solid Spruce top, Gold hardware, Top of the line model, Very Rare with Original hard case, Call for details, 29,900. The 6136 White Falcon and 6134 White Penguin from 1954 to 1957 are also highly collectable instruments. Those are actually all the numbers I've encountered from the #13750-13799 range of labels. Then at #13773 I've documented another special build, a model 6028 acoustic archtop with Cats-eye soundholes. John used this guitar on Otherside, Californication, and for a few sections on This Velvet Glove. with Chet's Streamliner Special (6120 prototype) at #13753, this pre-production White Falcon at #13757, and I've documented the other two known pre-production examples of the 6120 at #13767 and #13770. John Frusciante’s 1957 Gretsch White Falcon. Along with the flashier but much rarer White Falcon, the Western Orange 6120 has long embodied the Gretsch aesthetic, especially symbolic of the early rockn.
Then the production history gets interesting. The following batch was a group of 100 Corvette hollowbodies (#13550-13649).
#1957 GRETSCH WHITE FALCON SERIAL NUMBER#
Serial number 13450 is attributed to the Mary Osborne Falcon Prototype (block markers), but the next 99 numbers were applied to a batch of Jet solidbodies (#13451-13549).
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