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Levin LT 18
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1965 catalog

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1967 catalog


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.

Marketed by U.K. distributors as Super Goliath Model 1855.

Introduced: Circa 1963
as a replacement for LS 18.

Earliest known example: 435810 (1963)
xxxxxx (1963-1964)

1963:
Rosewood bridge.
Nickel plated individual Van Gent tuners with metal buttons.
Also available as Goya T-18.

436167 (1963)
xxxxxx (1960s)

Circa 1965:
Belly bridge with individual height adjustable plastic bridge saddles.
(Old style bridge still used in early 1967).

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)

Circa 1969:
Replaced by Model 174.

Latest known example: 501464 (1970)