I just bought this old Gibson archtop (!). Credit to pheffernan for finding it, and even further credit to him for showing it to me instead of buying it himself.
Can't wait for it to arrive, so I can start playing!
In the meantime, we've been trying to get an exact identification of what it is. The seller provided quite a bit of info about it:
* FON - 432F, which would place it, according to Spann's, as a 1940 manufacture date.
* It was originally an acoustic archtop, a pickup was factory-added later. That pickup was then replaced by the current pickup, which is a Lindy Fralin P90 made custom for this guitar.
* The seller listed it as an L-4 T, which is not actually a model listed in Spann's. However, pheffernan pointed out to me that the headstock matches the one found here, referred to as an L75-style peg head. So, could it be a TG-75? A model listed in Spann's in the late '30s, of which neither phef nor I can find a photo.
Here's a google drive folder with all the seller's photos, as well as recordings of it played electrically and acoustically: Link to folder.
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