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thanks for that info on the production run. Didn’t realize that!
https://imgur.com/gallery/iEYefYQ
Going to tag @RevMatt in this
Serial numbers on hangtags not matching the guitar isn't an unknown phenomenon, and has often been put down to the serial no. being stamped on the guitar out of sync with the card being written.
However, another possibility is that these two guitars have reviously been owned by the same person and the cards got mixed up.
On the question of serial numbers beginning at 500, this is thought to be correct and general evidence supports this, with the exception perhaps of the original run of JS Legends which definitely started at no. 1.
With regard to the absence of the volute on the earliest examples (1991- mid 1992), it's suggested that this represents the period when the necks were hand carved and adding a volute was too labour intensive, but this was added when they switched to machining the necks - this is mostly one of those anecdotal beliefs that has been passed down through the annals of time, but it makes sense.
In terms of mixing cards up, the numbers aren't quite the same. 71 vs 73 so unfortunately not that simple. I'm sure the first theory is spot on though.
https://patrickeggleguitars.org/smf/index.php
When? And where?