frettedamericana | 1 decade ago
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A Very Early 'Royal Tan' 'Dot-Neck' Epiphone Casino With Factory Tremotone
This near mint very early sixties 16-inch-wide fully hollow thinbody guitar weighs just 6.10 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Laminated maple body with single binding on the top and back, one-piece mahogany neck with a very fast thinnish profile, and a bound Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original jumbo frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. 'Short' headstock with "Epiphone" inlaid in mother-of-pearl. Three-layer (black/white/black) dome-shaped plastic truss-rod cover with two screws. Individual single-line Kluson Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons, each one stamped on the underside "D-169400 / Patent No."). Two black plastic "dog-ear" P-90 pickups with very strong outputs of 8.37k and 8.64k. The neck pickup cover stamped (on the underside) "1 / UC-455" and the bridge pickup cover stamped "UC-450-1 / 2" (also on the underside). Three layer white over black plastic pickguard with Epiphone "E" logo inlaid in silver metal. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch for pickup selection, all on lower treble bout. Black plastic bell-shape knobs with metal tops. Gibson ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic non-retainer bridge with metal saddles. Original factory Epiphone 'Tremotone vibrato' with rosewood panel with silver Epiphone "E" logo. All hardware nickel plated. Inside the bass 'f' hole is the rectangular blue Epiphone label with Style "E-230TD" (typed in black), Epiphone "Casino" (typed in black) and [Serial] No. "35770" (stamped in black). This guitar is in near mint + (9.25+) condition, with just the minutest amount of light finish checking. The original frets show a very small amount of wear. On the back of the headstock is a small rectangular gold label lettered in black "Koss Music Co. / 2641 James St. / Syracuse, N.Y." Complete wit the original Epiphone folding price-list dated Sept. 1, 1961 with the "Koss Music Company of Syracuse" black rubber stamp, an original "The New Hamilton" fast action capo in its original box and the original black leather guitar strap that fits over the headstock (this guitar is totally virgin and does not gave an additional strap-pin in the neck heel). Housed in its original Epiphone five-latch tan tweed hard-shell case with dark-blue plush lining (9.25). Quite simply the finest example that we have ever seen...
The original retail price in 1961 was $314.50 plus another $50.00 for the case!
