Re: A stupid question, if you don't mind.
You can see pics of Gibson A-model and F-model mandolins at The Mandolin Archive, going back to the earliest years of the company. (NOTE: not all listings have pictures, but there are plenty of 'em.)
1. I have found no evidence that "F" stood for "Florentine" when Orville G introduced it pre-1910. any more than "H" series mandolas or "K" series mandocelli had descriptive names associated with their initials. Gibson made designated "Florentine" banjos in the '20's and '30's -- interestingly adorned with pictures of Venice, not Florence -- and they called their EM-200 solid-body electric mandolin "Florentine" when they issued it in the '50's -- again interestingly, it was a two-point design and had no scroll.
2. F-5 mandolins when they were first built were top of the line; they included Lloyd Loar's innovations of F-holes rather than oval soundholes, fingerboard raised off the top, and a longer neck that moved the bridge to near-center of the mandolin top. These features gave a nod to standard violin construction. There have been quite a few other Gibson F-models, and the scroll and body points are their characteristic features.
3. It's current shorthand to call F-models with f-holes, raised fingerboards etc. "F-5's," and those with oval holes and flush fingerboards "F-4's," but that's just a descriptive convenience. There were Gibsons with f-holes and flush fingerboards, and now other luthiers are building oval-hole, raised fingerboard mandolins.
4. Basically, the "F" (or "A") designation refers to body shape -- not to a descriptive adjective -- and other features are designated by the numerical suffix. Early F-models had an "extra" body point, and these preceded the introduction of the F-5, so there should be no "three-point F-5" mandolins around, but who knows? Someone may be building one now.
Allen Hopkins
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