This is not a great pic but it's the only one I could find on the net:
It's the black '59 Junior that caught my eye. There's a nice feature about it and a 1960 sibling in this month's Vintage Guitar magazine which is where my attention was drawn to them. They're not refins and though you can't really tell from the photo, they have really beautiful tortoiseshell pick guards. I reckon they might be the prettiest Juniors I've seen. According to the article the Gibson Custom Shop are considering a reissue based on these two newly discovered originals. The guy who found and bought them, Dave Hinson, from Killer Vintage in St. Louis, said in the article that though he'd heard tell of a few black Juniors being produced, he'd never seen one until these two turned up. I love stories like this where something amazing comes to light after many years and I do really like the look of these very much.
