Serial Number: 91912
Year shipped: 1935
FON:
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo
Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with square end and narrow block inlays from the first fret
Body: Maple back and sides, white oval label
Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including regular trapeze tailpiece and open-back Grover 98G ‘Sta-tite’ tuners with butterbean keys. Ebony bridge, long bound pickguard
Notes: Has original red stripe hardshell case
This is one of 110 16-Inch L-5s shipped in 1935
Images courtesy of Joe Vinikow, archtop.com