Josh White Model Guitar and case owned by Josh White

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2021.107ab: A Josh White Model Guitar (a) custom made by Ovation Instruments with an accompanying case (b) for Josh White. 2021.107a: Josh White Model Guitar custom made by Ovation Instruments for Josh White. The acoustic guitar has light colored, spruce, top wood and a black, semi-parabolic body. Around the edges of the sound hole is a rosette: a black circular band inlaid with a tn, mother of pearl, foliate pattern. The front of the neck is dark wood with inlaid mother of pearl fret markers shaped like notched diamonds and dots. A handwritten signature in gold ink, [Josh White], is written across the center of the headstock. At the top of the headstock is a gold printed logo for Ovation Instruments: the text [Ovation] with the first letter [O] printed in relief inside a stylized graphic of a guitar. The sides of the headstock are engraved with an ornate spiral pattern.

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