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However, there are also Stratocasters with serial number on the neck plate even lower, but which are dated June or July, like David Gilmour’s 0001 Stratocaster, that is not the older one (date on the neck June 1954, date on the body 28 September 1954), though it is one of the first Stratocasters fabricated.
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The first documented serial numbers on the neck plate start from the 0246 (April 1954), 0287 (May 1954), 0240 (June 1954), and 0333 (July 1954) Stratocasters. In this case also there wasn’t a specific order of the serial numbers. Later, the serial number was moved on the neck plate, probably because the plastics of the first back plates broke easily or because the guitarists, in order to mount the strings, removed and sometimes lost it. Some, like the 19, the 008, the 771, just to name a few, are simply dated 1954 others also refer to the month, like the 0155 (March 1954), the 0035 (April 1954), the 0065 (June 1954), the 0207 (May 1954). Werner has compiled a list of instruments in which many Stratocasters with two, three or four serial numbers appear, although these numbers have been used on the very first Stratocasters without a specific order. According to them, the serial number engraved on the back plate was between 01 and indicated the first Stratocasters fabricated which yet weren’t those with the lowest serial number.Īnother famous collector, James Werner, supports another hypothesis, which currently seems to be the most accredited. Gruhn and Duchossoir claim that they were four-digit, even if the last digit wasn't perfectly aligned with the first three and sometimes it was slightly detached, suggesting that this was due to a machine that was not fully functional or that the Stratocaster serial number was born three digits and that the fourth was added in a second step. But not all the collectors agree on what the first serial numbers of 1954 were. The first Stratocasters featured a serial number on the plastic back plate which covered the springs of the vibrato unit.