Serial Number 94044

Year Shipped 1937

FON

Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and narrow block inlays from the first fret. Wide neck heel. 24 ¾-inch scale length

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

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

This guitar is one of 212 Sunburst Advanced L-5s shipped in 1937

Images courtesy of Dayton Vintage Guitars