This 'first year' single 'Florentine' cutaway, 16 inch wide thinline guitar weighs just 6.00 lbs. Laminated birds-eye maple top, laminated maple back and sides, single-bound on the top and the back. One-piece mahogany neck with a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches, a nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a wonderful and typically '56 thick neck profile. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 20 original thin frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo. Two-layer (black on white) plastic truss-rod cover with two screws. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic oval buttons and "2356766 / Pat Appld." stamped on the underside. Serial number "V 7799 4" stamped in black inside the treble f-hole. Two wonderfully resonant P-90 pickups with outputs of 7.84k and 8.84k and black plastic covers, each one stamped on the underside "UC-450-1 1", the bridge pickup cover with an additional black plastic 'spacer'. Five-layer (black over white) plastic pickguard with side mounting bracket and treble-side neck pin. Four controls (two volume, two tone) on lower treble bout, plus three-way pickup selector switch on upper bass bout. Gold plastic bell-shaped "Bell" knobs. Les Paul combination trapeze bridge/tailpiece. All hardware nickel-plated. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition. Apart from some minor finish checking and two tiny marks on the back of the neck, this totally original, first year example, is as good as one could ever wish for. Housed in its Original Gibson brown four-latch hardshell case (same as an ES-335) with pink plush lining (9.00).
