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Very nice black 74. lives in New Zealand with Graham
Note the control panels. More and more of these are surfacing, Meny seem to be black.

I guess Jan is entitled to have his picture on this site right!
The black guitar in the right photo is interesting. Its probably a prototype. The body looks a little thick, it has a Les Paul type layout (4 volume/tone and a 3 way switch) and the inlays are different than the production version.
An interesting note is that when Framus put out their first ads, they used an Akkerman with those diamond inlays, but with the unbound cutout and the standard (production) control layout. Jan is holding that guitar, or a similar one, in the middle photo.
We've never actually come across one of those guitars with the diamond inlays so we suspect they never made it to production.

This beauty is an early 74 model. It's as beautiful and minty in real as it is in the photo. The photo was obviously taken by a professional. It's also the same guitar that is on the front page. Back of the guitar has the larger control panels and a thicker/deeper body. Not the sandwich construction for the sides.
A couple other interesting things about this guitar is that the inlays are particulaily nice - a lot of color, and it has larger frets (original) than any Akkerman I have seen.
It resides in Northern California, but is currently on loan to the Framus Museum.

This guitar belongs to Volker in Germany. Volker has a Cherry burst as well. You can see it peaking out on the top right corner. It's on one of the other photo pages.
This guitar is one of those"rescued from the factory" guitars.