Serial Number: 86512 Barney Kessel
Year shipped: 1930
FON: 9688
Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo
Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and 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 base plate and pearl buttons, mounted so that the cog is positioned below the worm gear. Pickguard is missing. Ebony bridge
Notes: Belonged to guitarists George M. Smith and Barney Kessel


Images courtesy of Tony Marcus