Rare Single-Cut Silver Jet with Filter'Tron Pickups

Single cutaway. This 13 1/4-inch-wide guitar weighs just 7.70 lbs. and has a nice fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 inches. Chambered mahogany body with four-ply binding, pressed arched top with Silver Sparkle finish, one-piece mahogany neck, and bound ebony fretboard with 'zero' fret, 22 frets and neo-classic inlaid pearl thumbprint (half-moon) position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl Gretsch "T-roof" logo. Individual open-back Grover StaTite tuners with oval metal buttons. Two patent number Filter'Tron pickups with clear plastic surrounds and outputs of 3.96k and 4.09k. Three controls (two volume on lower treble bout, one master volume on cutaway bout) plus two three-way tone-selector switches on upper bass bout. "Arrow-through-G" knobs with cross-hatch pattern on sides. Original Space Control bridge on ebony base and and chrome cut-out "G-hole flat" tailpiece. Inside the control cavity on the back of the guitar is the orange and gray Gretsch label printed in black, with the model number ("6129") stamped in blue and the serial number ("38688") stamped in black. The switch control cover plate is engraved with the serial number ("38688"). This guitar is in near mint condition and is most certainly the finest example available. It even has has the original receipt dated December 3rd, 1960, the original guarantee, instructions, tags, etc. Housed in the original Gretsch two-tone gray hardshell case with burgundy plush lining (9.25).