Serial Number: FA 5170

Year Shipped: 1940

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Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo

Neck/fingerboard: 20 fret fingerboard with pointed end. Wide neck heel. Like other early  cutaway Gibsons this example has  a fingerboard that is not elevated off the top, but rests directly on the guitar’s face

Body: 17-inch body with maple back and sides, Natural finish and large bound f-holes

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

Notes: The back rim has a small, sealed crack running off the back edge just below the tailpiece. The back of the neck appears to have been lightly over sprayed. Original hardshell case. One of 27 L-5PNs shipped in 1940. Has been re-fretted at some point

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