[Stocker]

I was really going in for a Shooting Star junker for parts. But for the same money, I couldn’t leave this one there.
Its serial puts it in the middle of 1918…

Elkhart had their own sequence, so if it appears to be in 1918 on the Buescher chart, it's actually from the late '40s or early '50s.

 

[Stocker]

"Elkharts have their own serial numbers. "
My Google-fu is failing me-
Can someone link me to a list?

There isn't a published list, at least not yet.

At risk of causing yet another scandal, here's at least a start for postwar instruments:

30000 1946
36000 1948
44000 1950
52000 1952
71000 1954
81000 1956
102000 1958