'59 Melody Maker with "marks and scuffs"

[Dave W]

"shows normal signs of wear."

Nice Gibson logo and serial number! Where the hell did those tuners come from? What is that brass plate with the acorn nuts holding together?

[bassilisk]

Ooooo...my guitar player has been perving for one of these since he first heard Leslie West.
I passed this along.

I can only imagine the plate is protecting the beginnings of a split.

[Dave W]

If you zoom in on that last pic, it looks like there's a crack along the grain just below the headstock/neck transition Then there's the fact that '59 MMs didn't have a volute, yet the transition looks like one, which shows that the headstock has been thinned quite a bit.

[Highlander]

I suspect those bolts are all that is holding that whitling at the head together... Jackie particularly like the carved Gibson logo...