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~1920 Martin Style 2
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Martin Style 2 Ukulele c 1920 | $1150 | (v2420) Hawaiian music in the continental US began its popularity in the early part of the twentieth century due to touring Hawaiian musicians and the emergence of published Hawaiian music and the manufacture of the instruments on which to play it. By the late teens, Martin was offering ukuleles and they became so popular that Martin enlarged its...
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~1923 Martin K2
$1,695
Martin Style 2K Ukulele c 1923 | $1695 | (v2421) Hawaiian music began its popularity in the early part of the twentieth century due to touring Hawaiian musicians and the emergence of published Hawaiian music and the manufacture of the instruments on which to play it. By the late teens, Martin was offering ukuleles and they became so popular that Martin enlarged its factory to accomodate the...
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1967 Gibson B25-12
$1,295
Gibson B25-12 1967 | $1295 | (v2418) A nice clean and original example of a Gibson 12-string aimed at the youth folk movement of the mid-sixties. The little brother of the B45-12, the B25 line was essentially the next iteration of the LG2 series which had been phased out. The same quality Gibson workmanship and materials make the B25-12's an affordable entry into the 12-string...
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1941 Gibson J-35
$12,250
Gibson J-35 'Cherryburst' 1941 | $12,250 | (v2416) In the mid-thirties, the J-35 was Gibsons answer to the Martin D-18 ... a big-bodied, slope-shouldered Dreadnaught aimed at the professional or semi-professional guitar player who performed in a small combo or band and required the power that this guitar could deliver. A cursory glance at this example from 1941 and you know that it has...
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~1933 Kay Kraft Style B
$1,650
Kay Kraft Style B 'Venetian' c 1933 | $1650 | (v2414) The Kay Kraft instruments were produced by Kay Musical Instruments in Chicago, formally Stromberg-Voisinet. The 'Venetian' style instruments are attributed to Joseph Zorzi (a Kay luthier with Italian heritage who also developed the bolt-on neck seen here) which were offered for sale by the late 1920s and produced in three styles, A...
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1920 Vega Fairbanks Tubaphone Guitar Banjo
$1,950
Vega AC Fairbanks Tu-ba-phone Guitar Banjo 1920 | $1950 | (v2413) The A.C. Fairbanks Company began producing high quality banjos in 1875. In 1903 it morphed into the Vega Company in Boston which continued to market instruments bearing both the Vega and Fairbanks names. By 1909, Vega had developed the Tu-ba-phone tone ring, a brass ring with holes drilled on its interior. Many enthusiasts...
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~1938 Dobro Model 27
$1,975
Dobro Model 27 c 1938 | $1975 | (v2335) In 1928 John and Rudy Dopyera left their brothers and the National Company in California to form the Dobro Corporation. These two patented and marketed a 'spider' type resonator setup, different from that of a National. By 1932 Dobro sales were booming and the brothers licensed Regal in Chicago to begin manufacturing the wood bodies for their...
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~1942 Kay Del Oro
$575
Kay Del Oro Cowboy Guitar "Lefty" 1942 | $650 | (v2408) If you're an early 'Boomer', you were probably a big fan of cowboy TV shows .. in black and white, of course. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, the Lone Ranger, to name a few, sparked a huge marketing campaign which often tied into TV shows with sales of theme-branded items, such as guitars! It appears that Bradly Kinkaid's 1929 Houn' Dog is...
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~1960 Martin Style 0
$525
Martin began making ukuleles in the 1920s and continued through the 1960s, always constructed with the finest materials and workmanship. This example appears to be from about 1960 based on the original case, tuners and the manufacturer's stamp inside the sound hole. Martin began to use "Made in USA" on the stamp in 1961 and information gleaned from the Kluson website claims that they began to...
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~1928 Oscar Schmidt First Hawaiian Conservatory
$1,200
Oscar Schmidt First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music Guitar c 1928 | $1200 | (v2403) As we reported in a number of previous listings for these guitars, the First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music was a mail order study course with a mailing address in the Woolworth Building on Broadway, NYC. The Schmidt-owned business advertised heavily in periodicals of the day such as Popular Mechanics, with...
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~1928 Regal Style 2019
$775
Regal Style 2019 Guitar c 1928 | $775 | (v2404) Regal, with factories in Chicago, was one of the largest guitar manufacturers in America through the first half of the twentieth century. Probalby produced by the millions, not many have survived with the Regal label. A good number have surfaced with proprietary labels, but it's very likely that most Regal factory production was sold without...
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~1900 Haynes Bay State
$975
Haynes Bay State Style ‘D’ Parlor Guitar c 1900 | $975 | (v2341) Bay State and student-grade HUB guitars were a subset of the John C. Haynes company, with a guitar factory in Boston, MA. The names derive from this locale; Bay State from the nickname of the state (MA), and HUB from the nickname of the city (Hub).
Haynes began to produce guitars just post-Civil War, but didn’t introduce...
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1937 National Triolian
$6,500
National Triolian 1937 | $6500 | (v2350) Note that this is the second Deco-themed Triolian we've listed in the past few months, not the same guitar!
National's Triolian line was just about ten years old, and a big seller for the company when this rare beauty came off the line in Los Angeles. The Triolian had gone through a number of iterations since its beginning including wood bodies,...
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~1910 Harwood Parlor
$2,750
Harwood Standard Size 1 3/4 c 1910 | $2750 | (v2336) Harwood instruments were manufactured and marketed by the J.W. Jenkens Sons Music Company in Kansas City, MO. The Harwood name comes from the town in Illinois where the Jenkins family lived before moving to Kansas City. The company began in the late ninteenth century and continued through the first quarter of the twentieth century. The...
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~1967 Harmony Silvertone H621
$650
Harmony 'Silvertone' H621 c 1967 | $650 | (v2322) The Harmony guiar company was owned by Sears, and Silvertone was the house brand. By the mid to late 1960s, many 'boomers' embracing the folk/hippie thing needed guitars. Harmony was supplying that need. The Harmony factory in Chicago built guitars for 'everyman', using mass production techniques to keep costs down. But solid woods were...
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1935 Oscar Schmidt UAC 'Stella'
$675
Oscar Schmidt UAC Hawaiian c 1935 | $675 | (v2314) The Hawaiian music craze in America had wide-ranging ripple effects in the first part of the 20th century, and this Schmidt-made guitar is a direct result of that craze. Schmidt, among others, marketed guitars made from koa, often with Hawaiian themed labels, created the First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music to sell Hawaiian music and...
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1964 Martin 0-18
$2,975
Martin 0-18 1964 | $2775 | (v2250) By the mid-sixties, baby boomers were hot into folk guitars and Martin produced the 0-18 in pretty decent numbers to help fill that need. In 1964, 550 0-18s were made and cost $150, so a mid-sixties hippie would surely need a job to afford one! The model has become a popular one with guitarists in the past decade or so, with much appreciation of the power...
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~1960 Kay Beltone
$400
Kay "Beltone" Auditorium-size Flattop c 1960 | $400 | (v2218) Beltone was a brand of Perberg & Halpin, an instrument distributer in New York begun at least in the 1920s that ordered guitars from various makers and rebranded them for sale under the Beltone name. This particular example dates to about 1960, and its doppleganger appears in the 1960 Kay catalog as the 'Kay K5160'...
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~1937 Oscar Schmidt Decalcomania
$750
Oscar Schmidt 'Decalcomania' c 1937 | $750 | (v2235) The decade following the productive 1920s was tough for the Oscar Schmidt company. Oscar himself had died in '29, and then the depression came along. By the mid-thirties the company had sold off most of its factories but for the Ferry St. factory in Jersey City, with records showing that a new owner had taken control. Sometime between...
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~1938 Kay Aloha National Studios
$250
Aloha National Studios was similar is scope to the music schools that sprung up in the first quarter of the twentieth century, such as First Hawaiian Conservatory and OAHU. They didn't manufacture guitars, they simply had guitars rebranded, mostly by Kay in Chicago, and then sold them to students who enrolled for guitar lessons. OAHU is very well known, and many examples exist today. The Aloha...
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