The holy grail of ES-5s. Three original, guaranteed 1959 PAFs with long magnets (like the Les Pauls from the same year) (if you’ve seen better, tell me — they sell for an average of €5,700 each for black/black ones, but I won’t pull them to check whether they’re zebras). 100% original, no modifications.

No breaks, no cracks.

So it’s a second-owner instrument.

Expert’s assessment:

• All original. Serial no. A30562 (1959)
• The wiring is absolutely original.
• Removing one pot shows it is stamped CCT (November), week 33 of 1959. Therefore, the guitar cannot be earlier than that date.
• Almost all 1950s Sunbursts were the dark Cremona brown color. The lighter, more golden Sunburst didn’t appear until early 1960.
• Gold hardware.

Conclusion:
Dating: late 1959 / very early 1960.
It has quite a story, too. It belonged to a highly respected and well-known musician in England: Keith West (Tomorrow, etc.), without whom Sgt. Pepper likely wouldn’t have existed.
McCartney himself points out that the narrative, episodic aspect of West’s song inspired him, especially for his own work during that period — including the Beatles’ revolutionary album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” This shows that “Excerpt from a Teenage Opera” had an impact on the way McCartney and other artists of the era approached storytelling and more complex musical concepts.

That influence helped shape rock’s transition toward more experimental, narrative forms, where the album itself became a kind of concept or story. In that sense, Keith West and his work indirectly played a role in the evolution of psychedelic music and concept albums.
Also a direct link to Steve Howe (Yes, Asia, GTR…) and Ronnie Wood — in short…
Various provenance proofs, including a letter from the previous owner (him).
A demo of the same model, same year, sold a while ago by GuitarPoint:
youtube.com/watch?v=Er6gverbyCE
There you go. You’ll probably have to come pick it up or have it shipped insured, just ask.