Which includes these useful comparative photos: However, this topic has discussed here before:
I had a good look at your is impossible to say for certain from those whether the inlays are abalone or plastic 'pearloid,' but I don't see any of the iridescence one would expect from Mother of Pearl in the well-lit photos or camera flash. It looks like a nice guitar but your request for further assessment, in the hope of this being a vintage American made Epiphone Casino or some other rare model, seems to hinge on: 1) a paper label inside the guitar (easily doctored, and as you said yourself, where is the stamped serial number on the back of the headstock?) 2) the guitar being touched-up with black paint and the belief that someone has retrospectively attached a modern 3-screw truss rod cover to a vintage guitar, (which would originally have been fitted with the 2-screw variety) 3) the inlays. Sometimes evidence is irrefutable, and further exploration cannot overcome those fundamental findings. On vintage USA models' date=' the neck meets the body at the 16th fret, not the 17th.
