Serial Number: 96202

Year shipped: 1940

FON: 684F-4

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, Natural finish (see Notes) and large bound f-holes 

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including Varitone tailpiece and Kluson Sealfast tuners. Long bound pickguard and Rosewood bridge

Notes: The four-piece back suggests that the guitar may have started life with a sunburst finish, the dark outer areas of which would have hidden the additional sections of maple at the body’s edge

This guitar is one of 38 Natural finished Advanced L-5s shipped in 1940 (assuming that it left the factory with a Natural finish)

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Pictures courtesy of Musurgia