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Alvarez used 4 digit model numbers for pre-1999 Professional Series guitars.

The back and sides of the body were made from mahogany and the neck was nato.

The 5020C was the electro-acoustic version of the Alvarez 5020 Mountain and it also had a cutaway.

Theres some debate over whether the top is solid or laminated - some owners say its a solid spruce top but other commentors say laminated.

The round sound hole had an attractive synthetic shell rosette.

Read more No image yet ALVAREZ 5038 The Alvarez 5038 model had a Wildwood Cutaway, Cedar top, Ovangkol back and sides.

These had distinctive figured Koa tops - which were laminated.

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Examples made around 1982 have a brass plaque on the back of the headstock with the serial number stamp which reads ALVAREZ ARTIST, MADE BY ALVAREZ, COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF SLM (1922-1982).

The Alvarez 5055 Bluesman was a flat topped, small bodied acoustic with two f-holes.

The 5055 Bluesman was replaced in 1999 by the similar looking Alvarez AD65 model.

Without a pickguard and in white finish this model was called the Alvarez 5088 C WH.

It has a spruce top with three ply binding around the body and a black pickguard.

The nato neck has a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlays.

Alvarez Serial Number Lookup