58-9743
Gibson (used, 2007) ES-336
#CS30280, small semi-hollow body guitar in cherry, showing nice figure on the top.
with somewhat worn but still serviceable hard shell Gibson case. The Gibson ES-336 is the simpler, nickel-plated version of the lordly ES-356 – the highly decorated one, it is a smaller than normal ES-335, basically, measuring only 14 1/8” across the lower bout. It has a short scale of approximately 24 5/8” It has a nut width of standard 1 11/16”.
Our Discount Price is $2,056.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,995.00.
58-9746
Gibson (used, 1923) A-Jr. Mandolin
#71764, very good condition, with a newer chipboard case.
Our Discount Price is $1,495.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,450.00.
58-9722
Gibson (used, 1924 '25) MB-Jr. Mandolin-Banjo
#11128A27, open back, came in with no case, we may be able to provide it a Levys/Mandolin Bros. gigbag.
In addition to making a full line of professional instruments Gibson, in an effort to reach beginning and talented amateur players, instituted, in May 1923, a line they called “Junior.” In the mandolin-banjo series, the Junior was an open back, mostly seen in the black finish with a matching black headplate (with the center point facing upward), having a black ebony fingerboard displaying six mother of pearl dotmarkers in 5 positions.
Our Discount Price is $902.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $875.00.
58-9709
Gibson (used, 2006) ES335 DOT Satin
#00306707, plain maple, satin finish in trans/black finish with hard shell case.
Our Discount Price is $1,804.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,750.00.
58-9688
Gibson (used, 1966) Johnny Smith
#407201, (single pickup) acoustic archtop guitar,in very good plus condition, with original hard shell case.
The model named for jazz great Johnny Smith debuted in 1961. Mr. Smith, himself, debuted on June 25, 1922. Like the Gibson L-5C this guitar is 17” in width at the lower bout, but, being 3 1/8” at the bottom side, slightly less deep. It has the Venetian (soft) cutaway allowing fourteen frets access on the bass side of the fingerboard and 17 to 18 frets accessible on the treble side. The ebony fingerboard, which is inlaid with split blocks in 8 fret positions (alternating between three-part and two-part) has white outer binding and three ply (white-black-white) inner purfling on
Our Discount Price is $8,095.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $7,850.00.
58-9670
Gibson (used, 1950) ES5
#A6251, vintage sunburst, A-6251, cutaway, in excellent plus condition with original brown alligator Geib label hard shell case.
As coincidence would have it, the cover store in this months’ (September 2010)Vintage Guitar Magazine is about the Gibson ES-5, which author Ward Meeker calls the “Postwar Standard Setter.” Their on-line blurb for the article reads: “When it came to Spanish-style electric guitars, Gibson was a reluctant participant, wading into the market in 1936. After WWII, it was more enthusiastic, though it didn’t get really serious until ’49, when it launched
Our Discount Price is $7,735.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $7,500.00.
58-9671
Gibson (used, 1957) Byrdland
#A-25309, vintage sunburst finish, in excellent condition with original brown Gibson hard shell case.
The Gibson Company sought to commemorate the performances and recording work of two famous players, Billy Byrd and Hank Garland. The former played with Earnest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours, and appeared regularly at the Grand Ole’ Opry with George Morgan and Little Jimmy Dickens, whose first recording on Columbia resulted in several hits. Later he worked with Johnny Horton, Webb Pierce and Leon Russell. Mr. Garland played with Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Patsy Cline.
Our Discount Price is $7,212.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $6,995.00.
58-9633
Gibson (used, 1929) TB2 Tenor Banjo
#M4397-2, with period hard shell case.
The tenor banjo played an extremely important part in the jazz band – both in Dixieland and popular bands as well (Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, etc.). Tenor banjo building among mainstream and secondary builders was established and proliferated. The big five brands of tenor banjos were: Gibson, pre-WW2 Epiphone, Bacon & Day, Paramount and Vega. Gibson began building tenor banjos in September of 1918 with their “TB” model, for “Tenor Banjo.”
Our Discount Price is $2,425.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $2,350.00.
58-9571
Gibson (used, 1924) Lloyd Loar signed F-5 Master Model
#75846, in excellent original condition in Cremona Brown Sunburst with the original hard shell case.
We present to you an example of the finest mandolin known to mankind. “What might that be?” I thought I heard someone ask. It is [a flourish of trumpets is heard offstage] a Gibson March 31, 1924 (signed and dated) Lloyd Loar F-5 model mandolin, #75846, bearing Virzi Number (one of the lowest numbers knows although they seem to have been applied in no particular order) of #10002.
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58-9532
Gibson (used, 1924) A-Jr. Mandolin
#80820, snakehead peghead, very good condition, with period or original hard shell case.
In the hierarchy of Gibson instruments the A-Jr. occupies the loftiest perch in the bargain basement. It occupies the basement since it’s the lowest price mandolin in Gibson’s line starting from 1919. It is modest of appointment, to be sure, being that it is all brown all over. This one's in the shop for some much needed rehab, but when it comes up this snakehead Junior will be a shining star, ablaze with prewar panache, ardor and, yes, zeal.
Our Discount Price is $1,804.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,750.00.
58-9535
Gibson (used, 1978) Les Paul Standard
#71308526, in overall excellent minus condition, with a newer generic black molded hard shell case.
This guitar typifies the Les Paul Standard of the late 1970s, being that it weighs about as much as a full-size 88-key electric piano, but at the same time it is extremely beautiful. The two-tone vintage sunburst finish continues unabated on top, back, back of neck in all its radiance and glory with somewhat less dramatic coloring (but still sunburst) on the sides.
Our Discount Price is $2,366.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $2,295.00.
58-9031
Gibson (used, 1962) A-40N mandolin
#55857, N” for natural top, in excellent plus condition with original black Tolex® covered hard shell form fitting case.
The Gibson A-40 was for 22 years the least expensive mandolin in the Gibson line. Those years, since you asked, were 1948 to 1970, Simple in its appointments, this carved Sitka spruce, lower case f-hole provisioned acoustic 8-stringed instrument has the neck that joins the body at the 11th fret, with a scale length (nut to saddle) of 14 reliable inches.
Our Discount Price is $1,335.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,295.00.
59-0956
Gibson (used, 1969) Super 400CN
#533455, in excellent condition with original hard shell case.
The Super 400 is one of the world’s largest and most impressive six-string archtop guitars. The model debuted in 1934 in Kalamazoo, Michigan as an 18” behemoth, quickly followed in late 1935 by Epiphone of New York City’s Emperor.
Our Discount Price is $8,609.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $8,350.00.
58-9515
Gibson (used, 1953) J-50
#4993, in excellent minus condition with newer Gibson hard shell case.
We are honored to have obtained for resale a legendary instrument -- an original condition example of the famous Gibson slope-shoulder jumbo that has been a mainstay in the Gibson since it was introduced to my sainted mother in June of 1942 (Dad was away. The war, you know.) It measures 16” in width at the lower bout, a short scale of around 24.9”, a depth at bottom side of around 4 7/8”.
Our Discount Price is $5,928.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $5,750.00.
59-0976
Gibson (used, 1926) Snakehead Style A-Jr. mandolin
#82718, in very good condition with original hard shell case.
In the Gibson hierarchy of mandolin models the A-Jr. has, since its inception in 1919, suffered the indignity of being the lowest in the league, the most servile still in service, the ne’er-do-well in the maple and spruce pile. This one was made during the window of opportunity in which the headstock was inverted, that is - it gets skinnier as it heads upward toward the heavens. It was also made in the last full year in which the A-Jr. was offered.
Our Discount Price is $2,056.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,995.00.
59-0959
Gibson (used, 1964) Super 400CES
#65004, vintage sunburst, in excellent condition, with original hard shell case.
The year 1951 brought us the birth of Phil Collins, the debut of Catcher in the Rye, and the first
presentation of the electric pickup-equipped version of the formerly
acoustic-only Gibson 18” beyond-Super-Jumbo sized archtop guitar. This was
called the Super 400 because the non-cutaway model originally sold for $400 back
in 1934.
Our Discount Price is $13,398.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $12,995.00.
59-0846
Gibson (used, 1924) A-2Z Snakehead A-style mandolin
#75640, made in the final year of the era at Gibson of Lloyd A. Loar, acoustic engineer and bon vivant, in excellent original condition with equally original hard shell case.
This blonde-face spruce top, brown maple back and sides carved mandolin displays the ferry tisirable letter “Z” after the nearly as exciting “A-2” on its label, and this means that it has the natural finish carved spruce top which is bordered in black purfling with crème side binding, and the fabulous and famous snakehead headstock shape. Its blackest of ebony fretboards is inlaid with 6 mother of pearl dotmarkers in five positions, and bordered in crème binding on 3 sides. NOW ON SALE. WAS $6495!
Our SALE Discount Price is $5,975.00 and Our SALE Cash Discount Price is $5,795.00.
59-0816
Gibson (used, 1930) Mastertone Granada Plectrum banjo
#9193-12, in excellent minus condition with original worn hard shell case whose center pocket lacks a tab, and which we are providing a new handle.
This is a semi-custom order Granada 40-hole archtop plectrum with some interesting features. Its gold plating is slightly dulled from time and oxidation; it shows light normal scratches and minor signs of use. It has the modestly figured maple resonator with the white-black purfling on four borders and the serial numbers written in chalk near the center back of inside resonator and also painted (with chalk for the last two digits) near the neck opening.
Our Discount Price is $11,335.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $10,995.00.
59-0815
Gibson (used, 1930) Mastertone Granada Plectrum banjo
#9193-5, in Maple and Brazilian rosewood, in solidly excellent condition with original hard shell case.
This is a gorgeous prewar long-neck four-string gold-plated banjo having a mildly figured maple resonator with twin concentric circles on the back, and white-black purfling on the back and sides of the resonator as well as on the sides of the crème’ bound Brazilian rosewood fingerboard.
Our Discount Price is $13,395.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $12,995.00.
59-0774
Gibson (used, 1927) Mastertone PB-3 plectrum
#8826-2, (long-neck 4-string) banjo, in very good plus condition, with a Paramount hard shell case.
We present a tube-and-plate flange banjo having a refinished mahogany resonator that may not be original to this banjo rim since the serial number painted into the back of the resonator is #9113, but the serial number on the inside rim is #8826-2. The back of the neck and the headplate are refinished as well. This comes in a prewar (period) Paramount Banjo case that’s been painted and taped up.
Our Discount Price is $4,639.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $4,500.00.