Serial Number: 92032
Year shipped: 1935
FON: 14XX – followed by a ‘1’ in red pencil (the second and third numbers are illegible)
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo
Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with square end and wide pearl 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.
Notes: The top centre seam has been resealed in the area beneath the tailpiece and there is some lacquer overspray over most of the instrument (the headstock face excluded). Reproduction pickguard. Has its original black hardshell case
This is one of 110 16-inch L-5s shipped in 1935


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