Super Rare 1959 "Top-Loader" Esquire.

This early '59 blond beauty weighs just  6.40 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid ash body and fretted maple neck with a medium-to-thin profile and 21 frets with black dot position markers. The neck is dated in pencil "3-59" and the pickup cavity is also dated in pencil "3-59". One single-coil pickup, angled in bridge plate, with a huge output of 6.37k. Rare "top-loader" Telecaster/Esquire combined bridge/tailpiece with three steel saddles and stringing through the ridge on the back of the base plate. There is some light edge wear but the guitar is exceptionally clean and the 'bluish' grain of the ash shows beautifully through the blond finish. This is the only "top loader" Esquire that we have ever seen and it is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition.  Complete with its original "ashtray" bridge cover. Housed in its original Fender "Tweed" hardshell case with brown leather ends and red plush lining (8.00).