c1952 HOFNER MODEL 457/S ARCHTOP GUITAR

 

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Note the lack of  binding on the sides of the guitar body - typical of Hofner's very early archtops.

 

 

          

...............and the flared top to the headstock. Again, the sign of an early Hofner archtop. The tuners are not the originals.

 

 




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