Hi
a bit more more info - although they look basically the same, the 50s version, made by Guyatone in Japan, is better quailty than the Freshman -it has a thicker body, set neck and superior pickup(s), where the Freshman is maybe UK-constructed with mostly imported parts of the cheapest possible kind - the body is only one inch thick, with finish you can scratch off with your fingernail, and a thin thin neck held on w/ 2 screws. Freshmen (heh!) turn up on UK ebay occasionally, but the Guyatones are pretty rare. I've never seen one, although I have a slightly later Guyatone with the orignal metal GUYAtone logo, but a more strat-like body that is quite a good li'l gtr. I got a Freshman on ebay as it was being sold with a Selmer amp, but I sold it on pretty quick.
The early Fenton Weill and Burns Weill c1959-60 gtrs were higher quality and Brit-made but the same shape, hence the confusion - there's one here, pretty cool:
here's a pic of a Freshman, forgot about the horrible 3 piece pickguard - so think you could cut it with a pair of scissors: -