A Near Mint Mid-Sixties Two Pick-Up Epiphone Olympic.

This very early 1966 guitar weighs just 5.80 lbs. Asymmetrical double cutaway, one-piece, thirteen inch wide, one and a third inch thick, solid mahogany body. One-piece mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard, 22 original jumbo frets, pearl dot inlays and a wonderful medium profile. Black faced 'batwing' headstock with "Epiphone" silk-screened in gold, two-layer, black over white plastic bell-shaped truss-rod cover with two screws. Serial number "530697" stamped in black on back of headstock. Six-in-a-row 'double-line' Kluson Deluxe tuners with white plastic oval buttons. The scale length is a standard Gibson 24 3/4 inches and the nut width is 1 9/16 inches. Two height-adjustable Melody Maker single-coil pickups with outputs of 7.13k and 6.84k. Single-layer white plastic pickguard with inlaid silver Epiphone 'Epsilon' and eight screws. Four controls (two volume, two tone) plus three-way selector switch and jack socket, all on pickguard. Black plastic ribbed-sided knobs with metal tops with red markings. The potentiometers are stamped "134 6551" & "134 6603" (Centralab, December 1965 & January 1966). Combination ridged "wrap-over" bridge with two intonation 'grub' screws. Factory Epiphone Maestro Vibrola tailpiece with 'walrus-tooth' tremolo arm. This all original example is in near mint (9.25+) condition with just a couple of very tiny and hardly noticeable  surface marks on the body. Housed in an early seventies Gibson three-latch, rectangular black hardshell case with orange plush lining (9.00).

According to a 1965 Epiphone price, list this guitar sold for $189.50.