This japanese-made Silver Falcon is a direct descendant of the famous #6136 White Falcon.

This was Gretsch’s 1955 top-of-the-range model, priced at an astronomical $600! Featuring gold-plated hardware, sparkly inlays and “wing”-decorated fret markers, it was an extrordinarily glamorous guitar. Gretsch described it as “an instrument for the artist-player who calibre justifies and demands the uttmost in striking beauty, luxurious styling, and peak tonal performance, and who is willing to pay [for this]”.

The Falcon disappeared from production in the early 1980s, but was revived in 1990 and has subsequently been joined in the Gretsch catalog by Black (1992) and Silver (1995) Falcons.