The Cortez or the FT-45 Cortez continued an earlier Epiphone model after Gibson purchased Epiphone in 1957. 44 EB Campus banjo 45 FT Cortez 66 EM Venetian mandolin 77. The serial number (063814) suggests that in the somewhat unreliable Gibson “system” it was produced in 1964. The Kalamazoo era is when this particular guitar was made: the label designates it as an Epiphone FT-45 Cortez, but it was the spitting image of the sunburst Gibson LG-2 described above.
Epiphone Ft 45 Cortez Serial Numbers Lookup.
