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Bjärton Isabella
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1955 catalog

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1957 catalog

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1959 catalog

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1963 catalog

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1963 catalog

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1966 catalog

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1967 catalog

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1967 catalog

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1971 catalog

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1972 catalog

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Circa 1975 catalog

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1979 catalog


Specifications:
Body width: 380 mm.
Body length: 490 mm.
Scale length: 630 mm.
Spruce top with fan bracing & soundhole ornament.
Mahogany back & sides.
4-ply bound (black/white) top.
Single-bound (black) soundhole.
Single-bound back.
Mahogany neck.
Unbound rosewood fingerboard with dot inlay.
Strip tuners.
Natural top finish.
Black neck finish.
5 year warranty.

Introduced: Circa 1954

Earliest known example: 2654 (Circa 1955)

Circa 1956:
Changed headstock design.

3961 (Circa 1956)
4059 (Circa 1956)

Circa 1957:
Changed rosette design.

5295 (Circa 1957)
6248 (Circa 1957)
6852 (Circa 1957)
7061 (Circa 1957)
7078 (Circa 1957)
7232 (Circa 1958)
7775 (Circa 1958)

Circa 1958:
Body width: 385 mm.
Scale length: 650 mm.
Square shoulders.
Fingerboard ends straight.
Changed rosette design.

21049 (Circa 1960)
19693 (Circa 1961)
23447 (Circa 1961)
28138 (Circa 1961) - (missing soundhole ornament)
unknown number (early 1960s)

Circa 1963:
Also available for export under the Hagström brand.
Marketed in the U.S.A. as Hagström HC-15 and as Hagström HC-4 in Canada.

48122 (1963)
51213 (1964)
51403 (1964)
60873 (1964)
63622 (1965)
70623 (1965)
70627 (1965)

Circa 1967:
Changed headstock design.
10 year warranty.

88583 (1967)

Circa 1967:
Body width: 370 mm.
Sloped shoulders.
4-ply bound (colors) top.
Changed rosette design.
Double-bound (white/red) soundhole.
Natural finished neck.
No fingerboard inlay.

102029 (1969)

Circa 1970:
Fingerboard ends rounded.
Nylon-string tuners.

109309 (1970) - (Hagström label)

Circa 1971:
Vertical headstock logo.

127558 (1972)
129060 (1972) - (Hagström)
133106 (1972)
139814 (1973)
54144405 (1974) - (Hagström) - (missing soundhole ornament)
54148141 (1974)

Circa 1975:
Single-bound (red) soundhole.

54156473 or 54168424 (1975 or 1977)
54160484 (1976)
54160683 (1976)
54163807 (1976)
54167165 (1977)
54178872 (Circa 1978)

Circa 1979:
Marketed in Germany as Hagström Victoria.

54188471 (Circa 1979) - (added pickguard)
54190599 (Circa 1980)
54193767 (Circa 1980)
54193790 (Circa 1980)
54194535 (Circa 1980)
54198655 (Circa 1981)
54200555 (Circa 1981)
54201365 (Circa 1981)

Circa 198?:
Triple-ply bound top with black outer layer.
Changed rosette design.
Single-bound (black) soundhole.

54212054 (Circa 1982)
Latest known example: 225877 (Circa 1984)