Serial number 84099

Year shipped: 1929

FON: 925

Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo

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: Owner Dave Walsh says “I believe that this guitar was owned by a working musician and spent its entire life in the NYC area. I was told that the original owner took it to John D’Angelico where it was re-fretted and over-sprayed. John also made a new bridge for it.”

Images courtesy of David Walsh