I’m no expert on pricing vintage guitars, but I suspect most high dollar vintage guitars are going to be martins.

How is the action? If the action is like buttah, then it is worth something to me. I assume the tone is great to amazing as well. Those strings look old so that may be difficult.

If the action is amazing, I’d pay up to $400 (maybe $600). You won’t lose a ton of money and you’d have a well constructed vintage instrument with great action ootb to rival the cost of a modern Mexico assembled guitar with some composite components. On the other hand you might strike gold!

Otherwise just go on Craigslist and buy a cool Martin or Taylor.

I personally have a gpcpa4 (Martin) and tonally it’s lovely and the action is perfect.

Upon further inspection it doesn’t look like it has seen much love. Maybe even spent a night or two in the rain?!

You might get it for a song.

Is it HUO?

Probably not worth much as it's trashed. If you play I'd just take it to the shop and see if they can save it, and enjoy having it around the house.

I wouldn't pay much for it but I'm not a collector. Maybe a couple hundred bucks?

I doubt you could tell any of that from the current state. Those strings are decades old and not all there. Wouldn't trust those tuning pegs either (you broke it, you bought it!) Thing looks like a mess frankly.

problem is most of those old gibsons need a neck reset just due to age... and that is costly. I had a 1950 j45 just like that and I sold it before putting that money in to reset the neck. Unless you know and trust someone to do it correctly, it can be risky. Plus it looks like that one has had a rough life... Id pay $500 if the neck was glued on and straight, and still somewhat playable ( decent action). Im sure it sounds great as it has that old wood.

I’d pass. You’re buying yourself about $750 worth of trouble. You’d be surprised how much many of the old Gibsons and Martins are not worth.

Definitely not from the 30s or early 40s - those would have a script G on the neck. Block letter Gibson started in 1947

If I had to guess I'd say it's a 1950's era LG-1. Not particularly valuable unless in very good condition, which this one is not. At the time it was made this was one of the lowest end, or "student" guitars that Gibson was producing. Without putting my hands on it and inspecting up close I wouldn't pay a cent over $300 for it, and that may be too much. At that price you might sink around another grand into it getting it back into playable condition, and then would be lucky to recoup that on the secondary market if you were looking to ever sell it. There are much nicer guitars that you can get for $1300. Vintage isn't always valuable or desirable, especially when it comes to musical instruments.

Is there a serial number on the back of the headstock

Yea looks like a 1954 lG1 or LG2 to me (check if the bracing ls X or ladder)

I’ve played every Martin up to D41 and personally I wouldn’t trade my 60s reissue custom shop Gibson J45 adjustable bridge or my J45 Donovan for any of them. But that’s just me. I obviously like the J45 lol

I agree with some of the above posts. I bet that is an lg

Personally I would never buy a guitar based on pictures. There's just too many things that could be wrong with it that a uneducated person would not see or worse, divulge. Plus, you can't hear how it sounds through the pictures and that's where it's really at. If the guitar is beat up so what? To me that usually means it was loved/played on a daily basis. So many people gasp at the site of a guitar that has a scratch/wear here or there and they think a guitar should always be in pristine condition. It's like a pinball machine, the more it was played the more it was loved and worn down to the wood. If I posted pictures of my guitars some guys would probably think there junk, but to me it shows my years of loving to play.

John

Yes it's probably the most famous guitar in history, it's priceless. I'm sure someday it will sit in Willie's museum down in Nashville. When that happens that guitar should never be played again as there is nobody that could play it in the same way that Willie does.

John

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Let us bow our heads

ViolinSteve what you think? I wouldn't give $10 for that oar.

Pick guard looks good .
Too bad they put it on the wrong fuckin side