~1920 GIBSON A Style
$1,495
Guitar Showcase
Year is a guess, can't make out the serial number. It has the inlaid logo . Has a replacement tail piece cover, a slightly sunken top and some nicks and scratches, but not bad for her age. As with all our vintage pieces this old, it's sold as-is. Lots of pics to show the condition and we're happy...
~1920 GIBSON A-4
$1,995
Guitar Showcase
This Old A-4 is set up to play! It has a Pick up that sounds good--and appears to be glued to the underside of the top by the Bridge, replaced tuners and Tail Piece (with a 1/4" Jack), a Tone Guard back cage and an Arm rest.
It looks to me to have been refinished or at least sprayed over. There...
1917 Gibson Style O
$6,495
The Guitar Broker
This is an elegant Gibson Style O Artist Model Arch Top Acoustic Guitar made in 1917, made in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with what appears to be serial # 33695, its got a red sunburst varnish finish over its carved spruce top, its birch back and sides have a ton of cool figuring all over, its fat V...
1908 Gibson Style A Mandolin
$1,295
Mahar's Vintage Guitars
No sales tax for customers outside California.
Here we have a nice example of a turn-of-the-century Gibson A mandolin.
Dating these is a little wonky, but there are some features that remain undisturbed on this instrument that help. The "pineapple" shaped bridge cover, bridge, pickguard...
1922 Gibson Style A
$2,695
Gary's Classic Guitars LLC
1922 Gibson Style A Mandolin, Lovely Walnut finish, Sweet and vibrant sounding, Tortoise guard, “The Gibson” logo on tailpiece, beautiful looking, Very minor hairline on headstock, White label, Plays great! Fun Mando that’s ready to enjoy!!! VG++, Nice original hard case, $2,695
1925 The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Co. Type A-Jr Mandolin Snakehead Vintage
$1,959.99
Mahar's Vintage Guitars
No sales tax for customers outside California.
This vintage mandolin is in remarkably superb condition. The original case is similarly well preserved. It is the nicest example currently on the market.
Produced as a student-oriented model during Gibson's most prestigious mandolin making era....
~1925 GIBSON "A" SNAKEHEAD
$2,995
~1930 Kel Kroydon KK-20 Mandolin
$1,899
Thunder Road Guitars PDX
Freshly set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech, this venerable and extremely rare Kel Kroydon KK-20 Mandolin is playing and sounding just as it should. Kel Kroydon was a line of instruments made by Gibson for only a few years. The guitars have become highly collectable, most notably in the...
1928 Gibson A Model Blackface
$2,850
Players Vintage Instruments
GM - 00089 1928 Gibson A Model Blackface EXC A little wear on the black top and a bit as well on the birch back and sides which like the rest of the mandolin are crack free. This is a real good player with a good strong sound. Silver stenciled "The Gibson" on the truss rodded headstock...
1906 Gibson 0
$20,000
Matt Umanov Guitars
Extremely rare; I haven't seen one of these, for sale or not, in nearly fifty years. This is the original Gibson larger-bodied, high-end acoustic guitar, the early version before they gussied it up with a scroll in the body. If you were in an orchestra, perhaps a mandolin orchestra, that wanted a...
1980 Gibson F-5 L Fern Mandolin Jerry Rowland Label
$9,999
Thunder Road Guitars
Description
Up for sale is a 1980 Gibson F-5 L "Fern" Mandolin in its original sunburst finish. Label signed by Jerry Rowland. This instrument came out of a collection of guitars that came from an ex Kalamazoo Gibson employee. This is the first and only time this Mandolin has been on the market...
1921 Gibson F-4
$7,499
TR Crandall Guitars
1921 Gibson F-4 in excellent condition with very minimal signs of wear for a century old mandolin. This F-Style mandolin is in all original condition with only major repairs being a couple minor repaired top cracks. Interestingly enough, this mandolin features the ultra-rare adjustable aluminum...
1935 Gibson L-5
$19,989
Dayton Vintage Guitars And Amps
Body size at lower bout: 17". Scale length: 24 3/4" Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Materials: Handcarved bookmatched solid Adirondack spruce top; solid bookmatched heavily quilted tiger flame maple back and sides; solid three piece maple neck with walnut center-stripe; solid ebony fingerboard; mother of...
1957 Fender Musicmaster
$4,084
TCGAKKI
1957Made in 1957 Musicmaster!!
Introduced in mid-1956, the musicmaster was marketed as Fender's student model.According to one theory, Fender released it as a competing model after receiving information that Gibson was going to release a Les Paul Jr 3/4 in the same year.The scale is 22 1/2"...
1923 Gibson A2-Z
$4,999
TR Crandall Guitars
1923 Gibson A2-Z in very good condition. These are some of the finest sounding A style mandolins ever made and were only produced under the "A2-Z" moniker from 1922-27. Andy Statman famously played one nearly identical to this for many years. The black finish is a unique feature, not typical for...
1924 Gibson F-5 Fern Lloyd Loar signed
$165,000
Guitar Showcase
Not only is this one of the rarest of all Loar signed F-5’s, this is a “Lost Loar” that was not even known to exist until we found it, and it’s the only one we have ever seen in “untouched” condition---a true attic find that has not been polished or repaired or re-fretted . The smell is...
1925 Gibson F-5
$110,000
Guitar Exchange
Superlative condition and exceptional sounding, early post Loar / transitional F-5 from early 1925. Fully original other than the inside edge of the F holes having been painted white by a previous owner, whose name can still be seen thru the treble side F hole. Original case in very good condition,...
1921 Bacon Artist Model
$3,650
Schoenberg Guitars
* Top of the Bacon Line
* Carved Maple and Spruce
* Made by the Bacon Banjo Co., Groton, CT
This rare mandolin was made during the same era as the Gibson F-4 and the Lyon & Healy Style A, with comparable craftmanship and tonal quality. These uniquely shaped instruments, with four...
Gibson J-45
$2,399
Chicago Music Exchange
The “workhorse” stripped to its pure essentials, the Gibson J-45 is Gibson’s best-selling acoustic guitar, and the Studio 2019 model is the J-45’s most elemental and affordable incarnation. Featuring walnut sides and back, a sitka spruce top, traditional, hand-scalloped X-bracing, and an LR Baggs...
Gibson Songwriter
$3,399
Chicago Music Exchange
The Songwriter may have been first introduced in 2003, but in combining the traditional, hand-scalloped X-bracing of the 1930s with Gibson’s original square-shoulder dreadnaught shape the Songwriter Standard is a timeless representation of the manufacturer’s long, rich history of acoustic...
~1950 American Made F-Style Mando Tuners
$100
Matt Umanov Guitars
These are a very rare find, American-made tuning machines made for Gibson F-style mandolins back in the day. The Kluson set, judging from the type of gears, is probably from the 1940s; the Waverly (bass side only), probably from the 1950s. The Klusons, like most of their tuners from that era, had...