Gretsch Rambler 6115 1957

Description

This is the first year this guitar was made, it had a short 5 year production run. It features a painted Lotus-Ivory colored Top, Black Double Ivory-bound body, Red Truss Rod cover with matching Red Tailpiece insert and glowing Chrome hardware.
As rare as it is to find one this one is all stock, has the original case and the original Gretsch Guarantee Certificate
Some history about the short lived Rambler
"Cute as a button, the three-quarter scale Model 6115 Rambler was first produced in 1957. Although the guitar never appeared in a catalog or on a pricelist, the 13 1/2- inch-wide, 1 7/8-inch-deep, true f-hole, little hollow body has a creamy Lotus Ivory-finished top and Jet Black back, sides and neck. A sharp florentine cutaway body and one De Armond pickup are used on the model until about 1960 when a smooth Venetian cutaway and one Hi-Lo Tron debut on the guitar. The black plastic headstock overlay engraved with a white "Gretsch" black letter logo matches the pick guard motif. A rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays and no binding an a movable rosewood bridge are standard. Chrome-plated metal parts include a "G"-cutout tailpiece and "G"-indent control knobs. An unusual characteristic of the Rambler is its red plastic truss rod cover. There is a distinct possibility that the 6115 was intended to compete with Gibson's ES-140 3/4 or ES-140T-3/4 which were also three-quarter scale, down-sized hollowbody archtops; Gretsch's competitive edge, of course, was its perfectly-'50's color scheme. The Rambler moseyed off the range about 1962." (Jay Scott, The Guitars of the Fred Gretsch Company, p.179).
"Even by Gretsch standards, the 6115 Rambler took an unusual path. Somehow, for some reason, someone at Gretsch decided a ¾ scale, DeArmond-equipped true f-hole hollowbody, with a Florentine cutaway — unique among the Gretsch line — would be a good idea. And it was, sort of. While the Rambler was definitely different and only lasted a few years, they are neat little guitars with a devoted, if small, following. Even the Rambler color scheme is distinctive and memorable: Ivory White over Jet Black, with an inexplicably red truss rod cover. The diminutive Rambler debuted in 1957 to little fanfare. In 1960 a HiLoTron pickup replaced the DeArmond, and the unusual Florentine cutaway was lost in favor of the more common, rounded Venetian cutaway. Ramblers were dropped from the range some time around 1962