Actual maker at that time is still unknown, although later banjos were probably made or assembled there.ġ920 - 1940 Serial numbers were at approximately #5xxx - when the Groton, Connecticut works were started in April, 1920.ġ920 Bacon announced 2 arched top, carved mandolins.ġ922 David L.
#35,xxx).ġ906 - 1920 The early Bacon banjos, made from 1906 to 1920 were produced for Fred Bacon by several makers, including: Fairbanks-Vega, Wm Lange (Orpheum), and Fred's own workshop - in Forrest Dale, Vt.ġ913 Earliest reference to Forrest Dale, VT address in catalog. The "Bacon" and the "B&D" models were numbered consecutively - from Bacon's start in 1906 (#1) to it's sale to Gretsch in 1939/40 (approx. While the bulk of the information contained here is from Ed Britt, I have added a few things, and responsibility for errors is mine. Day, but his name was never part of the company name. Day, and the Transitional Bacon Banjos)Įditor's note: There was never a "Bacon & Day Company" nor for that matter a "B & D Banjo Company." It was always called the Fred Bacon Manufacturing Company, or the Bacon Banjo Company, or some variant thereof. (From my forthcoming, yet-to-be written, magnum-opus - David L. Bacon Banjo Company Serial Numbers A Summary of Bacon Serial Numbers by Ed Britt
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