Serial Number: 89511

Year shipped: 1933

FON: 434

Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo

Neck/fingerboard: 19 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 individual open-back Grover 98G ‘Sta-tite’ tuners with butterbean keys. Long bound pickguard

Notes: Has been re-fretted and there is small amount of overspray on the back. This example is unusual in having a 19-fret dot inlaid fingerboard with a pointed end (see also serial number 90204, which was shipped in 1934). We would expect an example of this vintage to have a 19-fret block inlaid fingerboard. A simple explanation is that the original block-inlaid fingerboard has at some point been replaced with this dot inlaid fingerboard.

Images courtesy of Laurence Juber