Re: Lyon & Healy pickup, what do we have here?
Looks like the model No. 5280 shown on p. 164 of Hubert Pleijsier's Washburn Prewar Instrument Styles. The pic's from a 1939 catalog, and the model shows up in his "1935-40" section. The book doesn't show the particular headstock "badge" you have, which leads me to speculate it may be a later-than-1940 instrument, and thus "out of range" of Pleijsier's book.
Yours also doesn't have a "Washburn" inlay on the headstock, which according to the book was characteristic of the No. 5280; there was also a "crown shaped nickel plated tailpiece cover," but since yours is missing, we don't know what it had.
I'd guess -- and it is a guess -- a No. 5280 or its 1940's successor. During WWII there were cutbacks caused by materials diverted to the war effort, and the headstock inlay might have been eliminated.
As to the decal on the top, and whatever was attached to the other side that pulled some of the finish off -- looks like something applied by an owner, not the maker.
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