1961 Epiphone Sheraton E212TV

$14,500.00

  • Year: 1961
  • Manufacturer: Epiphone
  • Model: Sheraton E212TV
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Sunburst
  • Condition: Near Mint
  • Description: This 16-inch-wide thinline guitar weighs just 8.50 lbs. and has a nice medium neck profile, a fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Laminated maple body with maple central block, five-piece mahogany/walnut/maple/walnut/mahogany neck, and rosewood fretboard with 22 original wide jumbo frets and inlaid pearl block position markers with v-shaped abalone inserts. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Epiphone" script logo and pearl "Vine of Life" inlay. Individual Grover Roto-Matic tuners with half-moon metal buttons. Two Epiphone mini-humbucker pickups with outputs of 7.17k and 7.20k. Tortoiseshell pickguard with five-layer plastic binding and with large Epiphone stylized "E" in silver. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch. Gold plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge with retainer and Epiphone vibrato tailpiece with Epiphone stylized "E" on the rosewood inlay. All hardware gold-plated. The serial number is also stamped in blind on the back of the headstock. This great guitar is in near mint and totally original condition, with only the bare minimum of marking (not belt buckle) on the back, some very minor finish checking, and some tarnishing on the gold-plated vibrato. There is some minimal wear to the first few original jumbo frets. Part of the silver epsilon on the pickguard has worn away but we will still give this fine and near mint example a good solid 9.25 rating. Housed in its original Epiphone dark gray hardshell case with blue plush lining (8.75). It is very rare to find such an early of a Sheraton. This actual guitar came from the World famous Chinery collection and is featured in color on p. 95 of Tony Bacon's book The History of the American Guitar from 1833 to the Present Day). (01269).