1960 HOFNER VERITHIN ARCHTOP GUITAR

SERIAL No: 301

POT CODES: 340 & 370

COURTESY OF MATT ARMSTRONG, SCOTLAND, UK:

Note: This guitar has had the body top re-finished. It would originally have been russet red.

The fact that this guitar has a 5-piece neck is evident from this photo. The dealer's plate indicates that the guitar was purchased when new in the then West Riding of Yorkshire from a now sadly defunct retailer, Moores of Bradford, on North Parade.

COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FRET-MARKER DESIGN ON THIS EARLY VERITHIN & THAT OF LATER VERITHINS:

Left: 1960 Verithin #301              Right: 1961 Verithin #460

Third & Fifth Frets:

1960 Verithin #301                      1961 Verithin #460

Twelfth & Fifteenth Frets:

1960 Verithin #301                      1961 Verithin #460

Note the early fret-marker design on the guitar illustrated in the 1960-61 Selmer Catalogue, in which the new Verithin model was first introduced.