Serial Number: Round-hole L-5

Year shipped: See Notes below

FON: 

Headstock: Horizontal ‘Gibson’ script logo

Neck/fingerboard: 19 fret fingerboard with square end and wide pearl block inlays from the third fret

Body: Maple back and sides. Appears to have been custom-ordered with a round soundhole rather than the usual f-holes. The interior label specifies the model as ‘Special’

Hardware: Gold-plated metal parts including regular tailpiece and open-back Grover 98G ‘Sta-tite’ tuners with butterbean keys. Ebony bridge and long bound pickguard

Notes: Has original hardshell case with purple lining

Unfortunately, we don’t have the serial number or FON of this guitar but a letter from Gibson, written in the 1980s, identifies it as a custom order, most likely from 1933. Davidson’s Well Strung Guitars adds “In a more recent discussion with Gibson, they advised us that this guitar is one of a kind and dates to 1935”

Images courtesy of: Davidson’s Well Strung Guitars