2003 Epiphone Elitist Broadway Natural, Robert Yelin Collection. UNRESERVED. Serial#: T301879. One of the first models introduced by Gibson under the Epiphone label was the E-25 1/2 Broadway, a 17" twin pickup cutaway produced between 1959 and 1969. For almost three decades, the Broadway was unavailable, until Gibson's Epiphone division reissued the Elitist series, a limited run of premium instruments built with solid Spruce soundboards, ebony fingerboards and other top-shelf appointments, and crafted in the prestigious Terada factory of Japan. The Epiphone Elitist Broadway features the same body-style as the Gibson L-5, which is considered by Jazz players to be the ultimate Jazz guitar of all time. Like the Byrdland Elistist also featured in this auction, both models are no longer made.

This immaculate example is fitted with a solid book-matched quartersawn spruce top, arched AAA flame maple back and sides, solid 3-piece maple neck with walnut center stripes, solid ebony fingerboard with abalone split- block inlay, and a compensated inlaid ebony bridge. All gold hardware includes logo stamped Frequensator tailpiece, Tun-o-Matic bridge, and Grover Super Rotomatic tuners, complete with a bound tortoise pickguard with epsilon logo and white carousel knobs. Tone is warm and rich with the twin Gibson 50SR/T USA humbucking pickups.

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