Fine with me.
It just helps if a source is cited and
very first issue of the Gretsch Country GENT had the sign post logo on pick guard
cited no source whatever.
Having said that, it makes perfect sense to use the standard CA pickguard on the very first units because even then it was going through refinements before the final form was reached in 1959. Even after that some pickguards had Chet's signature, Mine did, I took it off because I liked the plain gold look and even some had country gentleman in block letters on the pickguards in the sixties I think. Gretsch was always fooling around with that kind of thing.
As for questioning Vidar....My MAMG paperback only has 184 pages total. I didn't dig up my hardcover to check the page count because I have my hardcover buried kinda deep in my closet. Vidar cites pages 180 and 184 and neither of those pages show a Gent in my paperback copy
Didn't mean to get anyone's quills up.