ok .. the lacquer..
yellows with age normally, but can be very dark if exposed to sunlight and/or smoke...
as far as I am aware the nitro on all greco's starts out the same colour,
mick, its an 82 greco...so the closed O has been replaced by the open O of the mint collection...its a left over 1981 neck, still with the superReal logo on...(so they must have put the super real logo on before the greco logo in fujigen....)
the test to see if the body is superreal or mint collection is the tenon, if its a long tenon its a mint collection 82 body, if the tenon is normal LOOKING.. then its a super real...(also is long tenon ..but under the PU cavity so looks like normal)
so i have seen...
1. superreal necks and super real bodies with dry Z and the open O
(i have one on my site at the mo..the 82..)
2 superreal necks and mint collection bodies, open O, with the card saying EG58-120, even with the superreal logo, and Dry 1982,..
there was no actual manufacturing cut off point for superreals...they just sort of drifted into the mint collection....
still doesn't tell us the model no though....
EG58-120 is one guess, but the 3 piece body suggests a lower model number, so maybe a EG-58-100 which also had dry 1982....IF thats an original PU...
or it could be an EGF-850, with swooped PU's......LOL....
whats the tenon look like?