What's New
February 6, 2012--Behold. . . probably the nicest example of a TB-11 in existence!
February 5, 2012--New today, shipping information for a pair of TB-00s: #F560-7 and #EG-5712, which was the first Gibson banjo shipped in 1940.
February 4, 2012--Tennessee banjo great Jim Millsapps has provided us with photos and sound files of his wonderful 1939 RB-75!
January 29, 2012--I
have added shipping information for
TB-7 #5998-1,
RB-75 #2758,
TB-7 #F4713-2,
RB-75 #F5883-5,
and RB-75 #F906-3.
January 27, 2012--Today we have a beautiful 1928 TB-Florentine with a no-hole flathead tone ring!
January 22, 2012--Here's another great find from the family of the longtime, if not original, owner; this time it's a 1930 TB-2. No doubt about that date, either, as the folks at Gibson were nice enough to write "9/23/30" inside the resonator. . . a wonderful piece of evidence for the revised chronology as established by Joe Spann in Spann's Guide to Gibson 1902-1941. To quote early Gibson advertising genius L.A. Williams, "live not longer in a light that is past!"
January 8, 2012--The provenance of finding an old Gibson banjo still in the original owner's family is unbeatable, especially when it includes period photos of the owner with the banjo as is the case with this nice TB-3 from 1927!
January 3, 2012--I
am excited to start off the new year by having the opportunity to offer
for sale one of the "Wonders of the Banjo World",
an original
flathead five-string RB-7 dating to 1940.
