Rickenbacker Montezuma Brown

Montezuma Brown is one of Rickenbacker's more unusual color offerings — a warm, earthy brown finish that sits outside the typical palette most people associate with the brand. It appeared during a limited window and was never one of the high-volume colors, which makes surviving examples relatively uncommon. The name itself is evocative of the period in which it was offered, fitting with the broader trend in American guitar manufacturing during the late 1950s and early 1960s of using exotic-sounding names for finish colors. On instruments with figured maple tops, Montezuma Brown can look particularly striking, with the grain showing through the translucent finish in a way that adds visual depth. It is a finish that tends to be under appreciated relative to the flashier burst colors, but collectors who specialize in the full range of Rickenbacker finishes regard it as a distinctive and worthwhile piece of the color story.

Rickenbacker's Montezuma Brown is a dark brown to natural burst finish, resembling a shaded brown found on some first-year Capris ('two tone brown'). It's not the same as the reddish-brown Montezuma Brown from 1954-1957, which was a solid color. 

In practice, Montezuma Brown is a 'more brown than red Fireglo', and its difficult to visually tell Montezuma Brown from the 80's Autumglo, or 'Tobaccoglo' as used on the 480XC...  It also varies from run to run, so its not entirely consistent.

Montezuma Brown was the 'Color of the Year' in 2003 but was used on several other runs outside of that year.

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