1959 Guild® Aristocrat M-75

$8,500.00

  • Year: 1959
  • Manufacturer: Guild®
  • Model: Aristocrat M-75
  • Case: Original Soft
  • Color: Sunburst
  • Condition: Near Mint
  • Description: A Near Mint 1959 Guild® Aristocrat. One of a very few Carved Spruce-Top hollow body semi-solid sunburst M-75 Aristocrats shipped in 1959. This 13 1/2-inch-wide featherweight guitar weighs just 4.90 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches, a scale length of 24 3/4 inches and a wonderful medium-to-thick neck profile. Two and a quarter inch thick Honduras mahogany body and sides, body with triple binding on the top edge, carved spruce top, three-piece neck, and bound rosewood fretboard with 22 original medium frets and inlaid pearl block position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl "Guild®" logo and pearl "Chesterfield" inlay. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval Keystone buttons. Two white plastic single-coil P-90 style pickups with outputs of 6.19k and 6.01k. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch on bass bout. Rosewood bridge with pre-set compensating saddle with two separate feet. Guild® 'Harp' tailpiece. This near mint example is by far the finest 'Aristocrat' that we have ever seen. There are just a few very miniscule surface marks on the back and some very fine finish checking on the top. Housed in the original Guild® imitation brown leather soft-shell case with crimson plush lining (9.00). (01187).