E3281-4
1939 PB-7
This PB-7 is typical of the batch E3281, having the fingerboard of the style 12 but the solid carved maple resonator of the Style 7.
According to the surviving Gibson shipping ledger, this was one of 6 PB7 banjos to be shipped to H. Polliak in South Africa on May 16, 1941. In July of 2011 this banjo was found in Durban, South Africa and returned to the US.