1946

Serial number: 99241

Year shipped: 1946

FON:

Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo with no dot on the ‘i’

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and narrow block inlays from the first fret. Wide neck heel

Body: 17-inch body with maple back and sides and large bound f-holes

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including Varitone tailpiece and Kluson Sealfast tuners with plastic buttons

Notes: Pickguard has been replaced using original binding material).

This is an early postwar L-5 but we have included it as the specifications remain essentially the same as prewar examples from the late 1930s

Source: Jeroen Maas