Serial Number: 95342

Year shipped: 1938

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

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

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including hinged tailpiece with silver centre insert and three engraved diamonds and Grover Imperial tuners. Long bound pickguard and rosewood bridge

This guitar is one of 146 Sunburst finish Advanced L-5s shipped in 1938

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Images courtesy of Jean Louis Bouyssou