Serial number: 91917
Year shipped: 1935
FON: 1399-11
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo
Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with pointed end and wide block inlays from the first fret to the seventeenth frets
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 (one of the tuners is a non-original nickel-plated replacement)
Notes: At one point this L-5 was fitted with a humbucking pickup and two control knobs positioned to the right of the treble side f-hole. The resulting holes have since been professionally filled and refinished. In addition, the guitar has also been refretted and fitted with a reproduction pickguard (the original ‘guard is stored in the case). The top, back, sides and neck have been over-sprayed and a three-inch crack above the bass side f-hole has been repaired. Has original hardshell case. This is one of 110 16-inch L-5s shipped in 1935

Images courtesy of Ruurd Feitsma of the Dutch Archtop Museum