D'Angelico EX-DC Standard. D'Angelico's guitars are manufactured in Korea - as are Guild's Newark St Collection - and they typify that country of origin, coming with a price tag that sits between lower-cost Chinese and Indonesian archtops and semis from the likes of. DANGELICO SERIAL NUMBERS offers a pretty straightforward file DANGELICO SERIAL NUMBERS layout with a dual-pane interface and intuitive icons. Java-based issues: Typical of Java programs on.
I've considered doing the same for a while, but life keeps intruding. Best place to start is the D'Angelico serial number list, which you can find in various places, including the 'Acquired of the Angels' book. (There are also D'Angelico mandolins with no serial numbers.) There have been several threads on D'Angelico mandolins over the years, so a good forum search will get you partways there, too.
I've got some other photos and whatnot I can send you, though it's all stuff I've pulled off the internet over the years, rather than taken myself. As a reply to Spruce: Mandolin Brothers keeps saying that there were 47, which I think is based on serial numbers. Since I have seen several undated D'Angelico mandolins (including bowlbacks, which I don't think are included in the serial number list at all), I think that the real number is probably higher. But I'd have to look at the list again and count up to see if that's really where that number came from. I could be wrong.
My first serious love affair with a mandolin was with a D'Angelico offset 2-pointer with a scroll peghead that resided at Lundberg's in Berkeley back in '72 or so. It sounded and played amazing, and I would drop by the store and play it all the time. It's actually how I got into mandolin making, as I couldn't afford the mandolin, so figured I'd build one 'just like it' someday. I laid it on a xerox machine and copied the cool outline, and took notes on it's weird arching, with the recurve bottoming about 2' from the rim.
![Dangelico Dangelico](/uploads/1/2/5/6/125632875/737824871.jpg)
I made 4-5 of those, but I wasn't much of a mandolin maker. They wanted 4K for that puppy back in the days when Loars (I think) were going for 5K or so, so it was a highly valued item back in the day.
Sure sounded good to these ears. First, here's a list of places on the internet where you can see D'Angelico mandolins. You might already have seen most of these, but redundancy is a virtue. A bowlback in the possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The “Guitar Heroes” show also had another, later D'Angelico on display, but I don't see it on the Met website.
![Lookup Lookup](http://media.musiciansfriend.com/is/image/MMGS7/Premier-Series-DC-Grateful-Dead-Semi-Hollow-Electric-Guitar-Red-White-and-Blue-Lightning-Bolt/J49712000001000-00-500x500.jpg)
It looked like it had been refinished, since it was blonde but had the little wood plugs for positioning pins like D'Angelico used on sunburst instruments. That might have been the D'Angelico that G.E.
Smith owns, I can't remember. You've already got one of the D'Angelicos currently at Mandolin Brothers, but there's another one as well: Here is one that Mass Street Music recently sold: Here is one that was recently sold by Myjazzhome.com: One for sale at Los Angeles Guitar Shop: You'll have to decide whether to include instruments made by the shop of Raphael Ciani, where D'Angelico trained and worked prior to going solo. When these come up for sale, they always append D'Angelico's name to them, but I'm not sure what the evidence is that he had more to do with them than any other instrument that came out of the shop.
Here's an example: Number 142, featured here on Mandolincafe: One currently for sale at Gruhn's: A couple featured in Rudy Pensa's new book: Hit the “next” button on that page and they have a picture of G.E. Smith with his D'Angelico mandolin. Jim Garber has pics of a bowlback on this forum post: I'll put up some pics I've saved over the years in another post (if I can find them!).