Vega trumpets and cornets were on par with the highest quality brass horns of their time. (The Vega order and shipping records have not And the Vega series by estimates based on 'known' Mike Holmes' Mugwumps site tracks Fairbanks serials by the approximate Labels dropped a digit - and screwed-up the consecutiveness of the numbers. In the early-'60s a printer's error on the serial the original Fairbanks serial number series continued into the Vegas of Re-branded the banjos 'Vega' around 1920. The Fairbanks serial number sequence was also continued, when they Day to continue managing the line of Vega-made 'Fairbanks' banjos.īut, when Vega took over - they continued the serial series COMPLETELYĬonsecutively - with no gaps from year to year. Vega bought the rights to Fairbanks, and hired Fairbanks' Manager, David
The Fairbanks records were destroyed in the Feb 1904 fire. When AC Fairbanks headed for my 'home town' of North Tonawanda, NY, (Although, there was apparently a large 'jump' in the serial series in 1894,įor some reason. To hold true for the Fairbanks & Cole banjos - and for the The Fairbanks Hank has a key to the '999' series on his website, and it does seem So thereĪre gaps at the high end of each thousand series - since Fairbanks Numbers were assigned per year - from the start, in 1880. However, current thinking (thanks to Hank Schwartz) is that 999 Relationship to the model, or production date. Fairbanks and Vega banjo numbers are consecutive, and have no DIRECT
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