This was built durring the time frame when the Japanes builders had some of the best quality woods available to them and were setting out to show the world what they could really do. so Goya was commissioned back in the day this pre dates Sigma Japan. This guitar was built in the early 1970s in Japan when Martin had thought that it was a good way to address the Japanese high quality lower priced Japanese guitars cutting into their bottom line so Martin commissioned Goya of Japan to build their competitive to the US line "import" line ( Japan because no other country at that time was building anything close to the high quality guitars like Japan was making " China, India, Twain was not even a consideration Japan was in another league obviously to those countries. This is a great old Vintage Goya Acoustic Dreadnought Guitar by CF Martin & company. Here we are proud to have in stock today is a Cool one she's pretty rare too its a real vintage guitar its actually 42year old in fact. ORDER YOUR JVG- E-Guitar Appraisal TODAY! email us your request NOW for your Appraisal at About JVG & Purchase Policy | Contact | View Cart / Checkout We can send a quick Paypal invoice to you for this E-Appraisal and get started. Help support JVGuitars service today and go ahead and just order your E-Guitar Appraisal NOW!. JVGuitars has a simple solution and that is a Joe's Vintage Guitars E-Guitar Appraisal and they are only $45.00 per instrument its fast and its painless and will be conducted by email with no need for damage risk or shipping to and from. Are you seeking reliable information and or the evaluation of your vintage guitar's actual real world value today?.