Serial Number: 81273

Year shipped: 1927

FON: 8657

Headstock: Diagonal ‘The Gibson’ logo

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end, dot inlays from the fifth fret with double dots at the 12th and 17th frets

Body: Maple back and sides

Hardware: Gold-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 below the worm gear. Short bound pickguard

Notes: This guitar was purchased new directly from the Gibson Factory by musician Stanley Richards.

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Photos courtesy of Stan Werbin of Elderly Instruments