Serial Number: 90997

Year shipped: 1934

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Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script 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 regular tailpiece and individual open-back Grover 98G ‘Sta-tite’  tuners with butterbean keys. Ebony bridge

Notes: There is some older overspray on the neck, which has been reset. Replacement pickguard by Mirabella (www.mirabellaguitars.com). A floating pickup with thumbwheel volume control and pickguard mounted 1/4″ jack has been fitted (see pictures below)

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This guitar is in the collection of Dr Christopher McKee

Photographs courtesy of Cory Brackett at Rudy’s Music

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Images courtesy of Joe Vinikow