There is close to zero fret wear because it's hardly ever been played, and only in the first position at that. it’s still 100% shiny and if you can find much more than a wee bit of almost sixty years of extremely mild finish checking, which always occurs on the kinds of lacquers used back then, I’d be mightily impressed. It is in impeccable condition and while I'm usually hesitant to use the word “mint”, this is as close as it gets. It comes to me from its original owner, who got it for a birthday present from a well-meaning relative when he was about ten or twelve years old, but the guitar turned out to bigger than he was and got put away and mostly forgotten about.
Gibson's records from those years are sketchy and incomplete and it is possible that while accepted serial number lists put this guitar squarely in 1965, it is possible that it was made sometime in 1966. This is by far the coolest, cleanest, bestest mid-1960s Epiphone Casino I’ve ever seen, ever.
