1957 Gibson Super 300C

$15,500.00

  • Year: 1957
  • Manufacturer: Gibson
  • Model: Super 300C
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Tobacco Sunburst
  • Condition: Mint
  • Description: This super-rare, fifty-four year old, single venetian cutaway, eighteen inch-wide, three and three-eighths inch deep archtop, weighs just 6.10 lbs. and has a comfortable nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Two-piece carved close-grain spruce top, two-piece carved birds-eye maple back, and curly maple sides. A wonderful medium-to-thick profile, two-piece curly maple neck with a single mahogany center strip. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 20 original small nickel-silver frets and inlaid pearl split-block (parallelogram) position markers. The top and bottom of the body have three-ply binding, the f-holes are unbound, the neck is single-bound and the headstock is single-bound. Long headstock with inlaid pearl "Gibson" logo and pearl "crown" inlay. Individual Kluson Deluxe single-line tuners with tulip-shaped 'single-ring' keystone buttons. Original five-layer black plastic pickguard. Original rosewood bridge with pre-set compensating saddle on rosewood base. Original Super 300 brass tailpiece with no engraving. Orange oval label inside the bass f-hole, with the model "S-300C" written in black ink and the serial number stamped in black. Inside the treble f-hole the FON (factory order number) is stamped in black. Apart from a few miniscule surface marks, this exceptionally rare guitar is in near mint to mint condition. The original frets show virtually no playing wear, as does the Brazilian rosewood fretboard. Housed in the original Gibson five-latch brown "Lifton" hardshell case with pink plush lining (9.25). This is the only uper 300C that we have ever actually seen - it is identical to the example shown in Tom Van Hoose's book, The Gibson Super 400 / Art of the Fine Guitar (color plate #7). (01251)