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Gretsch Mexico small runs (location unverified)

Name: Gretsch Mexico small runs (location unverified)
Address: Mexico

Mexico (location known to country level only)^{no source}. Built for 1 brand on record.

Baldwin's Mexican organ facilities; city unverified (report proposes Juarez). Dates 1978-1979 per Blue Book (S261, claim on PR093); the earlier 1981-82 had no cited source. Location null (country level only); centroid removed 2026-10-15.

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Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (Mexico), so it is not mapped.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Gretsch	Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas	1978–1982^{[1, 2]}

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
1978–1979	Gretsch	Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas	full build	secondary^[1]
1981–1982	Gretsch	Gretsch Baldwin Arkansas	full build	disputed^[2]

Where its materials come from

No supply records for this plant yet.

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
bluebookofguitarvalues: gretsch company history 1973-presentgraded secondary
- Baldwin had experimented briefly with guitar production at their Mexican organ facilities, producing perhaps 100 Southern Belle guitars (basically renamed Country Gentlemans) between 1978 and 1979.Gretsch built here
2
jedistar: gretsch 2/ampgraded secondary
- "a handful of guitars were made in various places (including Mexico)"Gretsch built here

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