Gibson L-3 Guitar
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: maker
content: Gibson Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This guitar was made by the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1925. It is a six course (6x1) guitar, serial #80612, model L-3, with a spruce top, maple sides and back, and a mahogany neck. The guitar bears the printed label:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>PATENTED Feb. 1, '98 [/] Patented March 30, '06 [/] Other Patents Pending [/] Gibson GUITAR Style 13 [/] Number 80612 is hereby [/] GUARANTEED [/] against faulty workmanship or material. Should [/] this instrument, with proper care and usage, go wrong, [/] we agree to repair it free of charge at our factory, or [/] to replace it with another of same style or value. [/] GIBSON MANDOLIN-GUITAR CO. [/] (Manufacturers) [/] Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S.A.”</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The L-3 guitar was manufactured from 1906-1933. This guitar, without case, sold for $100.00 in a Gibson catalog from 1929.</P
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marjorie A. Cope
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.69.13
label: accession number
content: 282345
label: catalog number
content: 69.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in x 13 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 99.06 cm x 34.925 cm x 11.43 cm