Please help! Another mystery Serial Number

[Jaybird56]

Trying to decipher this SN from an Epiphone ES-335 Dot: R012C2951. This doesn't seem to fit any of the normal Epiphone SN formats I can find. Seems like there's one too many digits btw the "R" and the "C".

 

[Paruwi]

Peerless, korean made, March 2001

Seems like there's one too many digits btw the "R" and the "C".

yes, such things happened......

you can call it typical korean 'inconsistence'

 

[Jaybird56]

Thanks! Can you help me understand the code? I know that R=Peerless. I'm assuming the next 2 digits, "01"= the year, 2001. I'm pretty sure C=March and the 2951 is the instrument number. So, that leaves the number "2" in front to the "C" ... what do you think that stands for?

 

[Paruwi]

Can you help me understand the code?

Epiphone serial-number-information - identification

YYMMFFRRRRR In 2008 models begin to appear without a factory i.d. letter prefix. YY = Year of manufacture MM = Month of manufature FF = Factory I.D. RRRRR = Ranking number Example: 08121520333 = 2008 / December / factory 15 / unit 20333 NOTE: Pre 1994 productions also frequently omitted...

www.epiphonetalk.com

 

[Jaybird56]

Yes, I understand this, but my SN has 9 (not 8) characters. There seems to be a mystery "2" just before the "C". Any thoughts?

 

[Paruwi]

but my SN has 9 (not 8) characters. There seems to be a mystery "2" just before the "C". Any thoughts?

Seems like there's one too many digits btw the "R" and the "C".

yes, such things happened......

you can call it typical korean 'inconsistence'

€pi had other failures... for example the 'two thousand sixenteen' sticker

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[BGood]

€pi had other failures... for example the 'two thousand sixenteen' sticker

Oh yeah, loved that one.

 

[Jaybird56]

Never saw the "Sixtenteen" goof before. That's funny. Thanks for everyone's help.