c1954 HOFNER "CONCERT" CLASSICAL GUITAR

SERIAL No: 586

 

COURTESY OF FINLAY MORTON:

 

       

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A nice solid spruce top with rosewood to back and sides of the body. 

 


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Rosewood inlays around the soundhole. 



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This amount of  binding & edge purfling ndicates that this guitar was fairly well up quality-wise in Hofner's classical range.


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          Note the five-piece neck, the laminations of which are not covered by a fascia on the front of the headstock.         
  


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This type of label was used exclusively for those Hofner guitars supplied to Selmer London for distribution in the UK and British Commonwealth countries.


 


 

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