Serial number: 90103

Year shipped: 1933

FON:

Headstock: Horizontal ‘The Gibson’ logo

Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with square end and wide pearloid block 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. Ebony bridge

Notes: This guitar has been refinished. “ A more accurate finish is in its future,” comments current owner Jonathan Sipes

It is accompanied by the original receipt from John S. Redshaw, a dealer in “Guns and Diamonds” based in Granville Illinois. The receipt records that the “L-5 Master Model Concert size” guitar was bought by R. W. Link for $275 plus an additional $27 for the #515 Faultless case with “silk plush lining”. The payment was made with $165 cash plus two fiddles and a Martin guitar. The document is dated January 24 1934. 

In addition, an ‘L-5 Club’ card is also made out to Raymond Link of 1827 First St. Peru Illinois and is dated 1/15/35. Finally, there is an ‘L-5 Club’ booklet. 

Images courtesy of Jonathan Sipes