What was a Charlie Christian pickup originally named?

[hmemerson]

PAF =

Patent Applied For was its pending US Patent & Trade Office registration status. Calling a pickup PAF is what the peasants called it. As Gibson's first humbucker, it probably didn't have a model number until they developed other variations

When the patent was issued, they put a sticker on it with a patent number, the wrong one, the patent number for the Tune-a-Matic bridge. They realized that and insisted on continuing that indefinitely.

"Charlie Christian" pickup unit was called PU-150 in a catalog...I don't know which; saw a pic online once. Might have been in the prewar Gibson collection website.

Someone online claimed it was called 'Oscar Moore pickup' before 'Charlie Christian Pickup' but I doubt that's traceable.

Hello Murray,
The 1965 parts catalog which I have lists the humbucker in very ambiguous terms. Here's a picture of a small section showing you what I mean:



Regards,
Howard Emerson

[icr]

I've called it an Oscar Moore pickup since about 1970 when a good friend and I installed one of these pickups in a 50's Les Paul Junior I purchased, but that's another story for another time.....

Wow, that is crazy. Do you have a picture?