There is a bit of wear to the fingerboard in the "Cowboy Chord" position. It shows mostly just very small dings, scuffs, and other minor marks. This is a nice clean example overall, showing some typical maintenance work but no heavy play time since before the Korean War! It actually appears to have been only carefully played since new, which is kind of amazing considering it is well over 70 years old! The lacquer finish is still shiny maintaining the original deep color to the sunburst and patina overall. (11.4 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. (36.5 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/2 in. This is a smooth and versatile guitar well preserved and a fine example of Gibson's finest post-war flat-top period. The truss-rod equipped neck has a lovely round-backed "C" profile, somewhat slimmer than the thick wartime "baseball bat" style and very comfortable. The headstock bearing the gold script "Gibson" logo is tapered in depth, with WWII pattern Kluson tuners still fitted. Other typical features include a deep sunburst top finish, small tortoise celluloid pickguard, small rectangle bridge, triple-bound top and single-bound back. This was a short-lived transitional feature between the wartime "banner" headstock and the later block script "modern" logo that appeared in 1948.
#VINTAGE GIBSON ACOUSTIC GUITAR IDENTIFICATION SERIAL#
These 1946-47 guitars have no serial or factory order numbers but can be easily identified by their gold script headstock logo. The first post-war ones like this are somewhat scarcer, suggesting they were built in smaller numbers as Gibson was just getting back up to speed after doing mostly war work for 4 years. Exact production figures from this period are lost, but in 1948-50 the LG-2 sold roughly 1000 instruments a year, with more than double that amount of LG-1's shipped.
It was the middle model of a three-instrument line with the externally identical but ladder braced LG-1 below it and the natural-finish LG-3 above. This is a beautiful early post-WWII example of the LG-2, Gibson's most popular smaller body flat-top guitar model from the 1940s and '50s. 1946, made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, sunburst top, dark stained back and sides finish, mahogany back, sides and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, molded plastic hard shell case.
Gibson LG-2 Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar, c.