'60's Gibson

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:20 am

My friend in SLC wants to sell her dad's Gibson. All I can make out by her description is it's probably a '60's or earlier, hollow bodied electric. I saw it once when I was a teenager,and I recall it being kind of a jazz style. She has given me the serial number. Would this be enough to ID it?
She asked if she should go to a music store and ask them for an appraisal, I said NO, based on my bad experiences!

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:45 am

Jerry: I believe most older Gibson jazz boxes would have an oval shaped sticker visible through the upper F-hole. It should list a model number and a serial number. That should help you nail down what she has. I'll be happy to decode the date if you can post the numbers.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:58 am

Thanks. She wrote down what she thought was the serial, then washed the paper in the laundry. So according to her memory, it might be ES-125 T.

She'll visit him again in a week or so, I asked her to get a photo and have another look at the number.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:19 am

Jerry: An ES-125T would be a thinline archtop with F-holes and no cutaways. Usually they are sunburst on the front with dark back and sides and sport a single black dogear P-90 pick-up. Most of these date from the early to mid-60's. I'll be going out of town tomorrow, returning on Tuesday. Let me know if you get any specifics (i.e. serial number). I'm not interested in buying it, but I have several serial number guides on my bookshelf.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:22 am

Thanks Randy. I'm not interested either, just helping a friend who seeks an appraisal.

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:32 am

Jerry,

Once you get an idea of condition and asking price please come back to us with that information.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:26 pm

Well, I googled, I found. Still don't know the year, but she says it's like new. A Gibson site says these aren't too collectable, another site has a near mint '59 for 1600 bucks. I'm not sure if she'll sell or give to her niece.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:28 pm

A friend of mine has one and it sounds great, he uses it for slide. Woops wrong guitar, his is a double cutaway.

325_fan · Post by **325_fan** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:23 am

Yup, I have an ES-125T, '60's, economy jazz box. It's funky! I'd put a value on mine at $1,500.00. If it had the original case it would be more. Also, the condition of the piece is a factor in its value.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:54 am

The single cutaway of the same model is the guitar George Thorogood (sp?) has played "Bad To The Bone" on 8,793,245 times and counting.