The original 1st issue “Navarre” has to be the rarest Jumbo guitar ever produced. Its gorgeous 2-tone Dark Sunburst finish w/its all flamey maple construction having a wonderful flamey maple back & sides as well as a cool fat 3 piece maple neck. Its Ebony fingerboard w/Mother-of-Pearl and Abalone Position Inlays, ebony bridge, Tortoise-shell celluloid Pickguard, and a Solid Peghead with a G-Shield inlay. Super early production bearing serial #2168. 1954 is when the 1st of these F-50’s were released, this one has prototypical early “rounded edge a la Gretsch” White Pearl Block inlays, super clean single line gold Kluson tuners, this is the nicest one we have ever encountered & its just like the one that Buddy Holly played in 1957 but his had the newer type inlays, other than a small input jack repair on its lower right side, this F-50 is Museum Quality in all respects & comers in its original Brown tolex hard case.
