Gibson FONs 3419 and 3246

[mrmando]

Can someone look up the year on these for me? My copy of Spann seems to have gone for a walk.

[Hendrik Ahrend]

1916 / 1915

Also possible: 1935 (both) or

1941 (both) or 1940 - 45 (both)

[mrmando]

Thanks, I found Spann again (it was on the wrong bookshelf). These are definitely teens instruments I'm looking at.

The 1916 instrument is an A4 that, curiously, has plain tuner buttons rather than Handels, and appears to have always had them. Or, at least, there was a photo of the current owner playing it in the 1930s and it had plain buttons then.