Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom F-5 Studio Wine
$599
Chicago Music Exchange
Orville Gibson invented the modern mandolin, and mandolins have been a part of Epiphone’s DNA since its earliest days. Company founder Anastasios Stathopoulo’s first (and only) patent, filed in 1909, was for a mandolin. Gibson Master Luthier Lloyd Loar designed the original F-5 mandolin in the...
Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom F-5 Studio
$599
Chicago Music Exchange
Orville Gibson invented the modern mandolin, and mandolins have been a part of Epiphone’s DNA since its earliest days. Company founder Anastasios Stathopoulo’s first (and only) patent, filed in 1909, was for a mandolin. Gibson Master Luthier Lloyd Loar designed the original F-5 mandolin in the...
1923 Gibson F-5, H-5, K-5
$350,000
Laurence Wexer Ltd.
In cooperation with Watchtower Guitars , we have for sale a very rare trio of Loar signed Mandolin family instruments. The Loar signed mandolin family instruments are considered the finest ever produced and have set the model for all similar instruments that have followed. The F-5 mandolin , in the...
1931 Gibson F-5
$59,000
Laurence Wexer Ltd.
A beautiful late fern F-5. Specs look like a ca 1929 carve, by serial number 1931 , by fon and Spann ship date a bit later. In near mint original condition, this mandolin has all the volume and projection one expects from a prewar F-5.frets are in great shape and neck angle is perfect. A fine...
1938 Gibson F-5
$44,999
TR Crandall Guitars
1938 Gibson F-5 in excellent condition with a normal amount of wear throughout the instrument. Exceptionally fine sounding Mandolin fit for any stage or studio environment, and happens to be from the same production year as Sam Bush's F-5. This F-5 is crack free, in all original condition with the...
1957 Gibson F-5
$11,999
TR Crandall Guitars
1957 Gibson F-5 in near mint condition. All original with minimal playwear. This is definitely the cleanest 50’s mandolin we’ve seen in the shop. The FON is a U prefix putting it at 1957 production while the label has a 1959 serial number. These were produced in extremely small numbers with only...
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,...
1923 Gibson F-5
$139,000
2003 GIBSON F5-G
$4,995
1947 GIBSON L5
$16,900
Greg's Guitars
HIGHLY FIGURED / FLAMED MAPLE BACK AND SIDES,FLOWERPOT HEADSTOCK INLAY, ORIGINAL TUNERS,Body size at lower bout: 17". Scale length: 25.4" Nut Width: 1 11/16",All original hardware includes original engraved deco L-5 tailpiece; original quintuple bound dark tortoise pickguard; gold Kluson stepdown...
1934 Gibson F-10
$16,500
Schoenberg Guitars
One of the rarest of Gibson artist model mandolins, the F-10 was only made for a few years (1933-35) and is exceedingly rare, with less than ten known to exist. This fine instrument, with its ebony black lacquer finish and fancy inlays, is essentially an F-5 body with a shorter (F-4, F-2) neck. The...
1951 Gibson F-12
$4,850
Schoenberg Guitars
The Gibson F-12 model mandolin first appeared in 1934. Just under the top-of-the-line F-5, it had fancy appointments and a short neck. There were very few pre-war F-12s and production ceased by 1936. When Gibson reintroduced the F-12 in 1949, it was structurally identical to the F-5 with one...
~1922 Gibson Style O Artist Model Arch Top Acoustic Guitar
$7,250
Imperial Guitar & Soundworks
Offered for sale:
Vintage c1922 Gibson Style O Artist Model Arch Top Acoustic Guitar serial number 70272.
This instrument is in good to very good condition. The neck angle and frets are good. Cosmetically this guitar is abounding in patina. There is finish wear-through, marks, nicks and...
1923 Gibson Style O Artist
$9,250
Kovacik Guitars and Fretted Instrument Repair
1923 Gibson Style O Artist carved top acoustic guitar w/hsc
Cool and rare...and still looking good after a century of play and use. The serial number penciled on the paper label is 74043, and the neck block is stamped in ink with the FON 11937. The guitar is entirely original including the...