Serial number: 95666
Year shipped: 1938
FON: D-1 (hard to read: the D is ink stamped and the 1 is handwritten)
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo. Has the name ‘S.C. Ronsley’ engraved on the truss rod cover
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 large bound f-holes. Parallel braced top
Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including Grover Imperial tuners. Rosewood bridge
Notes: The nut and frets have been replaced, loose binding on the body reattached, the fingerboard re-bound and a separated centre seam repaired. A strap button has been installed on the heel cap. Has a reproduction tailpiece and reproduction pickguard by Paul Fox
“The person that I bought it from had inherited it from his uncle, a jazz player name Ralph Petrillo, who lived in Northern New Jersey and had owned the guitar since the 1940s,” says Mark Anagnostopulos
This guitar is one of 146 Sunburst finish Advanced L-5s shipped in 1938


Images courtesy of Mark Anagnostopulos