Guitar
Maker
Gibson
Date1907 ca.
Place MadeKalamazoo, Michigan, United States, North America
ModelStyle L-1, Concert Size
Serial No.7190
SignedPrinted on oval paper label with double-line border, the serial number written in pencil: Gibson Mandolin=Guitar Mfg. Co. [sic] / No. 7190 [Orville Gibson photo on lyre Mandolin trademark with text “TRADE MARK”] Patented / February first. / 1898 / Kalamazoo, Michigan, U. S. A. Gold over silver stencil on head: The / Gibson
DescriptionStringing: six steel strings
Soundboard: arched, two-piece, quarter-cut spruce: wide grain
Back: two-piece birch
Ribs: birch; lower rib divided by rosewood graft, wider at joint with top, surrounded on each side by three-ply dark-light-dark purfling trim
Head: Spanish cedar veneered on face with dark-brown-stained maple lacquered black; integral with neck
Neck: Spanish cedar; V-shaped profile; integral with head
Heel cap: integral with back; back comes to point at neck heel
Binding: ivory celluloid on top only
Fingerboard: dark-brown-stained maple with ivory celluloid binding; spruce wedge between fingerboard and top at upper part of arching; 19 nickel-silver frets; single mother-of-pearl dots behind 5th, 7th, 10th, and 15th frets; double mother-of-pearl dots behind 12th fret
Nut: bone
Bridge: rosewood with chamfered, raised squares at each end; bone saddle; ebony bridge pins with mother-of-pearl eyes; maple bridge plate expanded later
Tuners: two pairs of worm-gear, machine tuners the nickel-plated steel plates stamped with fleur-de-lys, nickel-plated brass rollers, and ivoroid heads
Endpin: ebony with mother-of-pearl eye
Rosette: rosette set in 1/4” from edge; rosette comprised of two sets of angled, alternating light and dark hardwood, in turn surrounded on each side by smaller light and dark hardwood strips
Pick guard: none
Lacquer: light brown on top and on neck; dark red-brown on back and sides; slight craquelure
Linings: kerfed birch
Neck block: mahogany or Spanish cedar with beveled edges
End block: birch with beveled edges
Top bracing: two short spruce lateral braces, with concave, tapered ends, above and below soundhole; light hardwood bridge plate
Grafts: none
DimensionsTotal guitar length: 938 mm (36-15/16″)
Back length: 475 mm (18-23/32″)
Upper bout width: 251 mm (9-7/8″)
Waist width: 196 mm (7-23/32″)
Lower bout width: 347 mm (13-15/32″)
Rib height (including edging) at heel: 71 mm (2-25/32″)
Rib height, at waist: 70 mm (2-3/4″)
Rib height, at endpin: 72 mm (2-27/32″)
Head length: 158 mm (6-3/16″)
Head width, top: 68 mm (2-11/16″)
Head width, bottom: 55 mm (2-5/32″)
Neck length (nut to ribs): 307 mm (12-3/32″)
Neck width, nut: 44 mm (1-23/32)
Neck width, heel: 56 mm (2-7/32″)
Soundhole diameter: 77 mm (3-1/32″)
Vibrating string length (nut to bridge edge): 617 mm (24-9/32″)
ProvenancePurchased from Gruhn Guitars, Nashville, Tennessee, 1996.
Published References“Recent Acquisitions,” America’s National Music Museum Newsletter 24, No. 2 (January 1997), p. 6.
Credit LinePurchase funds gift of First National Dakota Bank - Yankton, 1996
Object number05992
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