Serial number: 93194

Year shipped: 1936

FON: 654B-2    

Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo with no dot on the i

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and narrow block inlays from the first fret

Body: 17-inch body with maple back and sides, small unbound f-holes and wide neck heel

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including flat tailpiece engraved with ‘L-5’ legend. Long bound pickguard

Notes

This guitar is one of 152 Advanced L-5s shipped in 1936

Images courtesy of Tom Isenhour