Serial number: 91521
Year shipped: 1935
FON: 1244
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo
Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with pointed end and wide 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. Long bound pickguard and ebony bridge
Notes: Has a repaired hairline crack near the treble side f-hole. According to Joe Spann the guitar went-back to Gibson for a repair sometime in the mid 30’s, so the repair may have been done then. This is one of 110 16-inch L-5s shipped in 1935

Images courtesy of Skip Sail