![]() Total D-45 production from 1933 to 1942 was 91. But the guitar also boasted extra pearl binding around the headstock and, inlaid in abalone pearl on the fretboard in script large enough to be seen from the back of the hall, the new owner's name: Gene Autry. Jones (aka “The Marquetrie Man") of New York. His guitar had all the style-45 appointments-binding with abalone pearl inlays (on the top, back, sides, and neck heel), “boxed" inlay on the end piece, a completely bound fretboard with pearl inlays, a pearl inlaid rosette (as on the style 42), multicolored mosaic back strip, and an elegant torch headstock inlay by George H. ![]() What did the purchaser get for his extra $100? A lot of bling. Its structural features are familiar to guitar geeks everywhere: scalloped and forward-shifted x-bracing, Brazilian rosewood back and sides, Adirondack (red) spruce top, ebony bridge with ivory saddle, and a 12-fret neck with a slotted headstock.īut that description also applies to Martin's D-28, which was far more numerous in that era and only cost $100. A few months later, he had the fanciest dreadnought Martin had ever built-the first D-45, serial #53177. ![]() In 1933, a singing cowboy from Oklahoma plunked down $200 and ordered a new guitar from the Chicago Musical Instrument Company. ![]()
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