Here is a very hard to find guitar. This is a Gibson ES-150 archtop from the year 1942. I have posted a picture of the FON number for reference. These guitars were made in very small numbers in the beginning of the war. They had the ubiquitous P-13 lap steel pickup which was being used on Harmony archtops of the time. These jazz boxes are worth in the $3-4k range when all original. When I first got it I had it strung up for a bit and it sort of played in the first 3 positions. It has a bad neck set and appears as though an amateur removed the back at one point and was tinkering around inside. There are also some amateur crack repairs on the top. Most of the paint is intact. This is not a project for the faint of heart but would make a killer instrument when finished. I have added a picture from George Gruhn's Electric Guitars and Basses book showing what they looked like originally.