Serial Number: 87557

Year shipped: 1931

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Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo

Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret rosewood fingerboard with square end and wide block inlays from the third fret

Body: Maple back and sides, solid tone bars

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including wrap-over tailpiece and individual open-back Grover 98G ‘Sta-tite’ tuners with butterbean keys. Long bound pickguard

Notes: The use of rosewood for the fingerboard is unusual and suggests that it may be a replacement

This guitar was sold by Kennard Machol (of Intermountain Guitar & Banjo in Salt Lake City) to player/collector, Joey McKenzie from Austin, Texas. Joey decided to replace the guitar’s block inlaid rosewood fingerboard with an ebony fingerboard with a pointed end and dot inlays from the third fret. The work was done by Nashville luthier Hugh Hansen. See images, bottom of the page

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Images above courtesy of Kennard Machol

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Images courtesy of The Guitar Broker