Serial Number: 94392

Year shipped: 1937 

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Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo

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

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

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

Notes: Hairline crack to centre top beneath tailpiece, re-fret. A McCarty pickguard has been installed (missing tone control). Has original hardshell case

From the collection of Adrian Utley of Portishead

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

Images courtesy of Gardiner Houlgate