Well, hear is one for you. http://r.ebay.com/vIu8sd
An A Jr. with a Straight "THE GIBSON" logo and a SNAKEHEAD headstock!
Seller states, The manufacture numbers 8833 located inside could be aprox 1908.
Well, hear is one for you. http://r.ebay.com/vIu8sd
An A Jr. with a Straight "THE GIBSON" logo and a SNAKEHEAD headstock!
Seller states, The manufacture numbers 8833 located inside could be aprox 1908.
Dylan -- I know my song well before I start singing. Me -- sometimes
More than likely the seller is reading the second digit of the serial number incorrectly, and has left out the last digit. 8833x gives us a 1932 ship date, which is a few years too late for a snakehead. 8333x gives us 1928, which fits the logo orientation (and the fact that a logo appears on an Ajr at all; most of them have plain headstocks, but model specs get muddled toward the end of the snakehead era).
Under no circumstances was this made in 1908.
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That one looked quite pristine. I put in a "Hail Mary" bid on it, actually quite generous (it would not have been a steal), but I got outbid. Did anyone win this A-Junior?
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