Gold Gibson T-Top Vintage Patent No.2,737,842 Pickup (Date Stamp Feb 13 1980)

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Gold Gibson T-Top Vintage Patent No.2,737,842 Pickup (Date Stamp Feb 13 1980):
$124.95

here is nice, near mint, vintage Gibson T-Top from the 1980, last of the kind.
as you may already know, by June 1980 the T-Top bobbin has gone and replaced by Tim Shaw.
I came to conclusion and would called this pickup as a \'transitional\' one from the T-Top to what people usually called, Tim Shaw PAF reissue.I haven\'t open the cover, since it looks like that it never removed before so I want to keep it that way (it\'s quite difficult to find old pickup with cover never removed before).
but I previously had another three T-Top pickups, from 1979, 1980, and 1976/1977 (it already had stamped baseplate instead of sticker which ended up in 1975, but with no date stamp which begun to showed up in the 1978).
the one without the date stamp, has maple spacer and short Alnico V magnet. while the other two with date stamp, use white plastic spacer and a little bit bigger Alnico V magnet similar with magnets from 1982, 1983, and 1984 Tim Shaw PAF that I also had.
so they have all those Tim Shaw pickup parts, except it use T-Top bobbins instead of Tim Shaw bobbins.I assumed that this un-opened pickup will also have all those Tim Shaw parts but with T-Top bobbin, and I called this T-Top as a transitional to Tim Shaw pickups.
the pickup itself is still in good condition, near mint I would say.
the gold color still bright both on the cover and the screws with only light scratches, long wire (more than 13\" left).
so this is nice example of old pickup in very good condition.I will ship the pickup from Indonesia, using registered airmail (you can trace it online on local Post Indonesia website).
it will cost around $10 for 250grams weight to anywhere in the world.
usually it will take from 2 to 4 weeks time to arrive on its destination (depending on postal traffic, weather condition, customs clearance, etc).
if you want a faster shipping time, we can use Express Mail Service (EMS), it\'s a little bit expensive, for example it will cost $17 for 250grams weight to US (cost for every country is different).
I will combine shipping if you buy more than one item, to minimize postage cost.
check out my other listings. I\'m downsizing my humbucker collections since I\'ve been \'moving\' to single-coil territory lately.ask me if you have any question.
as is, no return.(I listed this item on several other places too, so I might ended this up early if it\'s sold somewhere else)