Serial Number: 96617
Year shipped: 1941
FON:
Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo
Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end and narrow block inlays from the first fret
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. Bound pickguard
This guitar is one of 18 Sunburst finished Advanced L-5s shipped in 1941

Image courtesy of The Chinery Collection