"Vintage Gibson Case Badge"???

[Peter Kurtze]

Not tempted, just curious . . . I've never seen the like of this. Lettering style looks kind of Arts & Crafts. What do you reckon?

http://bit.ly/x6oqe4

[MikeEdgerton]

I've never seen that logo used by Gibson on anything.

[Peter Kurtze]

I used to have a Gibson washing machine. Maybe this is from an icebox.

[MikeEdgerton]

It could have been from products made by any number of firms with the name Gibson. If it was a case badge someone will pop up with an example.

[Jake Wildwood]

People will jump to crazy conclusions about anything...!

[jim simpson]

Next thing you know, it will show up on Ebay nailed to the headstock of some cheap import and listed as a Gibson mandolin.

[f5loar]

Give them some slack............. it is being offered from a Pawn Shop. Maybe Chumlee is involved. It looks like it came off one of the 1940's Gibson Refridraders to me. Ain't no Gibson case from Kalamazoo, MI that saw such a logo.

[MikeEdgerton]

I went looking to see if I could find it on a Gibson ice box or refrigerator. If you never saw it, I'll assume my first assumption was correct.

[JeffD]

If I found one of these I would sure affix it to my mandolin case.

[allenhopkins]

I tried Googling "Gibson appliance logo" but couldn't find anything like it -- which means nothing, since there could have been a large number of nameplates etc. attached to various stoves, refrigerators, etc.

"Gibson" is a not-uncommon name, and who knows? Could have been attached to almost any type of object. Maybe a Gibson beer cooler...

[John McCoy]

I kinda like the idea of a Gibson "Badge." Are they now empowered to arrest people for--I don't know--faking/counterfeiting a musical instrument? Of course that's just a fantasy, because we all know that that never happens.

== John ==

[delsbrother]

Lap steel?

[P.D. Kirby]

Looks like one of those fake Civil War belt buckles I saw on Pawn Stars, minus the bullet hole..

[f5loar]

How about the pin badge the "Gibsonites" wore when Lloyd Loar was in the band? That should raise the price.