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Jack White's 1963 Supro Belmont Guitarchaeology

I recently had the opportunity to play one of Jack White's vintage guitars, a Supro Belmont. Supro was the budget line of National Dobro, and later Valco. Here's a quick synopsis of the history: The National String Instrument Corporation was formed in 1927. One of the founders of National, John Dopyera, left in 1929 and started his own company, Dobro. Then in 1932 Dopyera came back to National, and in 1935 the two companies merged to become National Dobro. This incarnation of the company produced guitars badged Dobro, National, and Supro. So Supro was born in 1935 to be the budget line for National Dobro. Due to a struggling economy, more business partners were brought in, and in 1940 the V.A.L.Company or Valco was formed. Basically, National Dobro dissolved into Valco. In 1958 Valco started producing a line of guitars for Montgomery Ward department stores, badged Airline. These are the guitars made with fiberglass bodies that Jack White played in The White Stripes. The White Stripes started out in Detroit in 1997. Each album they released was a little more successful than the last, but it was their 2003 album Elephant with it's first song Seven Nation Army that really blew them up. Jack White was known for playing these old '60s Valco-made guitars. You used to be able to find them cheap in pawn shops, but that all changed once The White Stripes rose to fame. This man single-handedly caused these old fiberglass-bodied guitars to skyrocket in value, collectors paying insane amounts of money for them! The Third Man Record label was started in 2001. in 2009, the first brick & mortar store was opened in Nashville, Tennessee. You can see that store and hear a recording made in the refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph machine here    • Recording in the 1947 Voice-O-Graph   In 2015, Jack started a partnership with another Detroit business and they paid $5 Million for the old Willys-Overland factory in the Cass Corridor area of Detroit, Michigan. This huge building now houses a retail record shop, a concert stage, and the Third Man vinyl pressing facility. Many of these old Supro's were built with fiberglass bodies (they called it Res-O-Glass) just like the now-famous Airline's, but they have a more conventional shape. They still have a subtle Art Deco inspired vibe, but not as outlandishly retro-futuristic as the Map Series guitars. Here at his shop in Detroit, an old Supro is set out on the floor, for display and also to test out the Third Man pedals the shop sells. I don't know if this guitar has ever been used on stage for a White Stripes or a Jack White concert, but the clerks at the record store said for sure, this is Jack White's guitar! Let's take a look at the serial number. It's etched into a metal plate on the back of the headstock. All Valco-made guitars from 1940 to 1964 were labeled like this...not just the Supro-badged guitars but also instruments they made for other companies, including Silvertone for Sears and Airline for Montgomery Ward. Here's a list of serial number ranges & corresponding dates: V100 V7500 1947 V7500 V15000 1948 V15000 V25000 1949 V25000 V35000 1950 V35000 V40000 1951 X100 X7000 1951 X7000 X17000 1952 X17000 X30000 1953 X30000 X43000 1954 X43000 X57000 1955 X57000 X71000 1956 X71000 X85000 1957 X85000 X99000 1958 T100 T5000 1958 T5000 T25000 1959 T25000 T50000 1960 T50000 T75000 1961 T75000 T90000 1962 G100 G5000 1962 T90000 T99000 1963 G5000 G15000 1963 G15000 G40000 1964 Notice the list only goes up to 1964. After that, from '64 up until Valco went out of business in 1968, the serial numbers were printed on a foil sticker or gum label, and they used a different format. Jack's Supro has a G suffix followed by five numbers. G10665 That puts it in the next to last range on our list, and tells us that this Supro Belmont was made in 1963. NOW we can do some digging, and feel fortunate we were able to find online a 1963 Supro Catalog that features the Belmont! #jackwhite #vintageguitar #thirdmanrecords