AN EPIPHONE RIVIERA CHERRY E360TD, 1967, SERIAL NUMBER 89780...

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£2,180

AN EPIPHONE RIVIERA CHERRY E360TD, 1967, SERIAL NUMBER 897805
109cm x 42cm

James’ love of Gibsons ultimately brought him to own five Epiphone guitars in his lifetime. This lovely cherry finished Riviera was made in the same factory as its contemporary Gibsons in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The E360TD was the Epiphone branded counterpart to the famous Gibson ES-335. The 16 inch thin line semi-hollow double cut-away body is a classic design and this example is in very clean condition and is nicely set up to produce the full and rich tones that you would expect from this model. The deck has some long varnish craquelure, there are two small blemish or hole repairs to the right and left of the period correct ‘Frequensator’ tail piece, possibly from a different bridge set up at some point in its history. The bridge is a Gibson ‘Tune-O-Matic’ and there are two spec PAF chrome cased pickups. The scratch plate is three-ply bevelled with an Epiphone motif. Overall, the body has some minor scratches and indentations to the back but is very clean for a 55 year old guitar. The volume and tone knobs are original. The bound rosewood neck has single parallelogram pearl inlaid fret markers, with some indenting but mainly on the first fret. The headstock is pearl inlaid with some minor edge chipping and has its original Kluson Deluxe tuners with the serial number clearly stamped. The Kalamazzo internal blue paper label is in good condition. It comes with a vintage hard case.

Sold with non-transferable CITES A10 certificate No. 613902/04