"Welcome back for my second favorite guitar. Funny enough, this was my second Gibson acquisition and it was in 1965 that I bought this incredibly rare, f-hole archtop Francis, Day and Hunter Gibson model. Apparently, this is a similar guitar to the Recording King which was made for Montgomery Ward Department Stores, although this is a highly graded deluxe guitar.

"It has very unusual checker binding with a four-inch body. This guitar was made around 1935 and production for this model was from around 1934 to about 1942. The instrument also has a very unusual headstock for a Gibson. I've only seen one identical to this in England and it was blonde. The inlay on the neck was originally the same as the inlay on the headstock but was replaced in the 1970s. I've also taken off the pickguard which Gibson added when they refinished the guitar in 1980.