Hi there, i bought a guitar off ebay two weeks ago.its a Black 1990 Gibson les paul standard, with gold hardware, cream ivory twin humbucking pick ups with cream ivory rings ,and cream ivory pick gaurds,91770389 ,called up gibson to verify the serial #.and they had no info on it,like it never happened,so brought it to guitar center fort/worth texas,3 or 4 salesman looked it over, and all said ,yep true gibson les paul standard..gold hardware throught them off,,but they said yepp that its all original ..nice guitar..they said in the 1990's Sam Ash,and Guitar Center would special order theses guitars right out the gibson factory,they had special colors,gold hardware,custom shop look,with them really not being custom shop.BUT LIMITED RUNS,,sometimes called guitar center exclusives,speical orders..well when it came to putting the gibson guitar specks in there data base, it just never happened...?? this guitar build on june 26th 1990 in tenn,plant,89th production.....THIS GUITAR CAME OUT OF THE NY AREA. when i bought it on ebay..looks like we could start a club on these very rare guitars,,,,have a great day people,,,rock on...