by Spud1950 » Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:37 am
Wow,what a cool guitar!It's not 1940's,it's 1950s. I found it in the 1955 Sears/Silvertone catalog in the Vintaxe collection. Exact same guitar. It's listed as model K0674L, "Our Best Spanish Arched Guitar".Original cost was $59.50. Definitely a Kay made guitar. For the 1950s,the collection only has the 1950,1955,1957 and 1958 editions.It doesn't appear in the 1950 edition and it's not in the 1957 edition,so dating it to the early to mid 1950's seems pretty accurate. Value wise, I can only tell you is that I've seen a lot of similar 1950's Kay branded guitars sell for around $300-$350. The Silvertone version might go a little higher because of the cool celluloid overlay on the peg head with the classic Silvertone crest. People really like the look of those,and the crest on the pick guard. Has he given you any idea of what he's looking to get for it?