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The neck is a little hefty for a modern taste, but then so were many others back then. As with almost all better Japanese solidbodies from the 1960s, with just a little attention this can be set up to play quite nicely.

And I love those typically Teisco rectangular adaptations of GretschвЂ™s thumbprint inlays.

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ThereвЂ™s nothing not to like about this guitar! I mean, how could you resist the look of that pickguard?! And metallic blue paint! Plus four-count вЂem-four chunky single-coil pickups. undoubtedly provided this guitar to Sears. The WG line debuted in 1964 with a plain pickguard, changing over to the very groovy striped metal вЂguard in 1965. WestheimerвЂ™s focus had shifted toward his Kingston brand, so W.M.I. In around 1964, Sil Weindling, Barry Hornstein, and Sid Weiss formed Weiss Musical Instruments (W.M.I.) and began importing Teisco Weiss guitars. Jack added the вЂњdel ReyвЂќ most often seen on these guitars. began importing Kingston acoustic guitars from Japan in 1959, followed either later that year or early in 1960 by Teisco electric guitars. The first known American importer was the late Jack Westheimer whose Westheimer Sales Corp. Teiscos were distributed within Japan and probably regionally until the end of the 1950s, when exporting to the U.S. The Teisco company was founded in Japan in 1946 by Atswo Kaneko and Doryu Matsuda. Except for the logo, itвЂ™s a completely stock Teisco. This Silvertone is a Model 1437, otherwise known as a Teisco WG-4L. However, obviously, as evidenced by the very existence of this guitar, they also sold guitars made in Japan, only just through their retail store outlets. Throughout the 1960s the guitars featured in the Sears catalog were exclusively American-made, mostly by Harmony. By the 1960s, when this guitar was made, Sears was the largest retailer in the U.S. Sears had branched out into retail stores in 1925. In 1940 Sears sold Harmony to its president Jay Kraus, after which it operated pretty much as before, with Sears as its main customer, with the Sears brand name changed to Silvertone. Sears, for its part, mainly relied on Harmony for its guitars, except occasionally when a specialty model was sourced from someone else.

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While it was a subsidiary of Sears, Harmony was still free to sell its own brand independently and to make guitars for other companies. In 1916 Sears purchased Harmony to supply the majority of its stringed instruments, which began appearing carrying the Supertone brand name in 1917. Sears sold increasing numbers of guitars as the years progressed, obtained from various sources, including Lyon & Healy, Oscar Schmidt, and the Harmony Company. That very SAME woodcut and copy appears in the first Sears catalog! ThereвЂ™s a guitar offered in WardвЂ™s 1894 catalog with a woodcut and some copy. Sometime between WardвЂ™s founding and SearsвЂ™ first catalog in 1894 WardвЂ™s began selling guitars. WardвЂ™s concept was so successful that Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck decided to compete head-to-head with them, starting Sears, Roebuck & Co.

WardвЂ™s idea was to return to Chicago and put the lists together for them by assembling a catalog and sending it to the farmers direct. A representative would take it to the big city to buy the stuff and ship it back in one big container. To combat the high prices, the farmers joined to form buying clubs and put together lists. And their only source of merchandise was the railroads, who charged an arm and a leg. At the time, the farmerвЂ™s only source for household goods was the general store. Aaron Montgomery Ward started his company in 1872 as a solution to the problem of farmers obtaining the items they needed to make life more palatable out on the Great Plains. WardвЂ™s was probably the first to sell guitars through its catalogs.

Vintage 1965 Silvertone Teisco 1437 Electric Guitar

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