Serial number2580

This guitar has the classic characteristics of a 1952 Esquire including: a transparent butterscotch blonde finish over an ash body, a single ply black phenolite (also known as Bakelite) pickguard, one bridge pickup with level pole pieces (staggered during 1955), a three-way switch with full pickup no tone control in the 1^stposition, tone control engaged in the middle position, and pre-set rolled off tone in the 3^rdposition. The one piece maple neck has narrow spaced position markers at the 12^thfret (wide between 1953 and 1963), a round string tree (rectangular in 1956), and Kluson no brand tuners (the tuners were stamped with Kluson Deluxe in a single line by 1957).