SOLD!! Peerless Maestro | carved top + back jazz archtop | Kent Armstrong h/b | sultry black | £2250

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Here's beautiful...a slinky (and very rare) black Martin Taylor Peerless Maestro.  These guitars are extremely high spec, with a carved solid spruce top, carved solid maple back, and solid maple sides. Elsewhere there is an ebony fretboard, bridge, tailpiece, tuning pegs, and pickguard - and a super toneful black Kent Armstrong floating mini-humbucker. 
An abalone orchid marks the 12th fret (there are side dot markers in the binding), and the volume control is discretely located under the pickguard.  This is a 15" archtop, with a 2 3/4" deep body; the nut is 1 3/4".  This facilitates finger style playing, although I personally use a pick.  
A hard Peerless case protects the guitar, which will come strung with Thomastik Infeld flat wounds (12-50); the guitar plays flawlessly.  A note of interest (or not); the guitar was originally sourced from the legendary Doc Dosco in the San Fernando Valley.
Collection in central London preferred, although I will post at cost.
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the Maestro is a wonderful guitar for those looking for a 15" (i.e. smaller and more manageable) archtop, with no loss of great jazz tone...bump

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surely someone here would enjoy this swell young archtop?  Modest negotiability on £££ possible, as usual...