Serial number: 76710

Year shipped: 1924

Virzi Number: 10184

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 from the fifth fret

Body: Birch back with maple sides, Virzi Tone Producer fitted

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 that the cog is positioned above the worm gear. Short bound pickguard

Notes: This L-5 was formerly owned by David Grisman

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Images courtesy of Robert Corwin of Old Gibson and of Laurence Wexer