Serial Number: 96358
Year shipped: 1940
FON: 945 F
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 large bound f-holes
Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including Varitone tailpiece and Kluson Sealfast tuners with Catalin buttons
Notes: Replacement pickguard. Has original hardshell case
This guitar is one of 20 Sunburst finished Advanced L-5s shipped in 1940

Images courtesy of Cory Brackett of Rudy’s Music