I'm pretty sure that the logo was painted on, not a decal. I once had an old Gibson Southerner Jumbo that looked like it was from the 40's but had a 50's logo on the peghead(This was before Gibson started using pearl inlay on that model). It needed a bunch of work, and had obviously been repaired and oversprayed at some point. When I brought it to my luthier, we got to talking about the logo discrepancy. He held it at just the right angle in the sun, and you could see the older script logo under the newer paint. He was able to remove the modern silkscreened logo and layer of black paint, so that the original, 1947 script logo was visible.
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