![]() So Tom's response may add some new heat to this ongoing debate. Respondents to past threads on the Cafe have been rather emphatic that the celebrated Sumi was a builder only of KM900s, 1000s, and 1500s, but NOT the KM850. For the last 15 years or so the serial numbers begin with the year of production, but before that it is hard to pinpoint the exact year of manufacture. We have very few records from that period of production when the company was much smaller than it is today. I've seen 4 digit SN's from the early '80s and 5 digits starting with 19XXX from the mid to late '80s, so this is the best estimate I can come up with. ![]() ![]() I can narrow this one down to 1983-1986 approximately, but there's no fool-proof way to know for sure. This Kentucky is definitely from that factory in Japan (Sumi was the inlay guy in that period), which shut down sometime in the late 1980s-the label inside confirms that. ![]()
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