Serial number: 89354

Year shipped: 1933

FON: 388

Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo

Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with square end and wide pearloid block inlays from the third fret (see Notes)

Body: Maple back and sides, carved solid bracing

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

Notes: Missing pickguard. Repaired top centre seam at the tailpiece, a small back crack, and reglued back. The original plastic fingerboard inlays have been replaced and the guitar has been re-fretted. Reproduction pickguard. Has original case

Images courtesy of Arlan Ettinger of Guernsey Auctions and photographer Paul Schraub

The photos above show the guitar with its original plastic fingerboard inlays. These have since been replaced (see pictures below)

Images courtesy of Laurence Wexer