Serial Number: 83659

Year shipped: 1928

FON: 9007

Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo, pearl nut

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end, dot inlays from the third fret

Body: Maple back and sides

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including wrap-over tailpiece and Waverly three-on-a-strip tuners with engraved baseplate and pearl buttons, mounted so that the cog is positioned below the worm gear. Short bound pickguard

Notes: This guitar has “made in the USA” stamped on the rear of its headstock, thus indicating that is was an export model.

Image courtesy of Bernunzio Uptown Music