Serial Number 96009

Year shipped: 1940 

FON: appears to be 753F

Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and narrow block inlays from the first fret. 25.5 inch scale length

Body: 17-inch body with maple back and side and large bound f-holes. ‘1 ¼’ is written by hand on the inside label 

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including Varitone tailpiece and Kluson Sealfast tuners with Catalin buttons. Has original bound pearloid pickguard

Notes: This guitar was shipped to ‘W Schmidt’ on 10th April 1940.  Interestingly, according to the ledger records, it was originally shipped as an ‘L-5PN’. Gibson’s records also show that it was shipped a second time on 17th November 1942, this time to Lyon and Healy in Chicago. The guitar may have been refinished in Sunburst at this point

This guitar is one of 27 Natural finished (see Notes above) Premier L-5s shipped in 1940

Images courtesy of That Rhythm Man Guitars