Teens and Twenties Gibson Mando production

[yoods]

Does anyone have a source to to share to learn of how many Gibson mandolins were made each year, broken down by model, in the 1910's and 1920's?

There has been a lot of discusions on this board about vintage Gibson's over the last year; just wondering how many were made.

[Bob A]

Gruhn's guide (and probably lots of other sources) has a list of serial numbers. Not strictly mandolin, but it still gives an idea of production. Generally a couple thousand instruments a year until about 1913 whwn output began rising dramatically, peaking in the late teens and falling off dramatically in the mid-twenties.