Serial Number: 92296
Year shipped: 1935
FON: 215A-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. Rosewood bridge
Notes: Replacement tuners and a repro pickguard
Tony Marcus comments: “Despite having a 1” mark on the label, the top and back are a bit thicker than many with that mark.”
This guitar is one of 56 Advanced L-5s shipped in 1935

Images above courtesy of Tony Marcus
Images below courtesy of Mike Thompson, show the guitar with a DeArmond floating pickguard