Serial number: 76480
Year shipped: 1924
Virzi Number:
Signed and dated By Lloyd Loar on March 31st 1924
Headstock: Diagonal ‘The Gibson’ logo
Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end, dot inlays start at the fifth fret
Body: Birch back, Virzi Tone Producer fitted (Mandolin Archive lists this guitar as having no Virzi)
Hardware: Silver-plated metal parts including wrap-over tailpiece and Waverly three-on-a-strip tuners with engraved base plate and pearl buttons, mounted so the cog is positioned above the worm gear. Short bound pickguard
Guitarist Jimmy Vivino playing the Loar L-5 pictured above
Images courtesy of Mark Agnesi, General Manager at Norman’s Rare Guitars