I've got a black '96 MIM, and when I input the serial# into one of the databases, it comes up with the notation "Signature" but without saying which model. On the headstock, where signatures usually are, there's a patch where the finish has been buffed down to the wood, like somebody really, REALLY didn't want a signature guitar of whoever it was. I've roamed around the internet looking for answers, and have come up empty. And no, I know nothing of its history before I got it about 15 years ago, other than the fact that I kind of stole it in a trade with a guy who had no idea how to play it (I call it "my $43 Strat", but that's another story for another day.