Serial Number: EG-5026

Year Shipped: 1939

FON:

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, parallel top bracing, Natural finish and large bound f-holes 

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including hinged tailpiece with silver centre insert and three engraved diamonds and Grover Imperial tuners. Rosewood fingerboard

Notes: The tailpiece hinge has been professionally repaired. Reproduction pickguard. Has original striped tweed G&G hardshell case

This guitar is one of 48 Natural finished Advanced L-5s shipped in 1939

Images courtesy of Joe Vinikow