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| Specifications: |
| Non-cutaway. |
| Goliath size: |
| Body width: 400 mm. |
| Body length: 505 mm. |
| Body depth: 95/120 mm. |
| Fingerboard width: 43 mm. |
| Scale length: 630 mm. |
| Spruce top with X-bracing. |
| Flame maple back & sides. |
| 4-ply bound top. |
| Single-bound back. |
| Mahogany bolt-on neck |
| with adjustable truss rod. |
| Single-bound ebony fingerboard with bass side pearloid block inlay. |
| Ebony bridge. |
| Nickel plated strip tuners with white plastic buttons. |
| Natural finish. |
| Ten year warranty. |
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| Marketed by U.K. distributors as Super Goliath Model 1855. |
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| Introduced: Circa 1963 |
| as a replacement for LS 18. |
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| Earliest known example: 435810 (1963) |
| xxxxxx (1963-1964) |
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| 1963: |
| Rosewood bridge. |
| Nickel plated individual Van Gent tuners with metal buttons. |
| Also available as Goya T-18. |
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| 436167 (1963) |
| xxxxxx (1960s) |
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| Circa 1965: |
| Belly bridge with individual height adjustable plastic bridge saddles. |
| (Old style bridge still used in early 1967). |
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| 448408 (1965) |
| 450439 (1965) |
| 453239 (1965) |
| 454726 (1965) |
| 454776 (1965) |
| 471127 (1966) |
| 472333 (1966) |
| 473878 (1966) |
| 475915 (1966) - (changed tuners, added electronics) |
| 484454 (1967) |
| 487501 (1968) - (Goya serial number stamped inside body) |
| 488327 (1968) |
| 492773 (1969) |
| 493093 (1969) |
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| Circa 1969: |
| Replaced by Model 174. |
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| Latest known example: 501464 (1970) |
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