Serial number: 92284

Year shipped: 1935

FON: 128A-1 (the -1 is written in red pencil)

Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret ebony fingerboard with pointed end and wide block inlays from the first fret. Pointed neck heel

Body: 17-inch body with maple back and sides and small unbound f-holes 

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including flat tailpiece engraved with ‘L-5’ legend and individual open-back Grover 98G ‘Sta-tite’ tuners with butterbean keys. Long bound pickguard and rosewood bridge

This guitar is one of 56 Advanced L-5s shipped in 1935

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Pictures courtesy of Jon Zobler