Guitar
Trade Name
Silvertone
trade name of Sears, Roebuck & Company
Distributor
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
distributor
Date1930-1950 ca.
Place MadeChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
ModelSilvertone
Serial No.88851[K]603
SignedStencil painted in ivory on front of peghead: SilvertoneMarkingsStamped in black ink on inside of back: NHVStamped in black in on inside of back near neck block: 88851[K]603
Stamped in black ink on inside of back enclosed in box: Made in / U.S.A. / S [30 or 50]DescriptionTop: one-piece birch
Back: one-piece birch
Sides: birch
Neck: poplar
Fingerboard: black-stained hardwood with ivory plastic dots behind 5th, 7th, 9th, and 12th frets
Nut: black-stained hardwood
Frets: 18 steel
Tailpiece: nickel-plated steel
Endpin: light hardwoood
Bridge: missing
Saddle, heel cap: none
Tuning machines: two pairs of machine tuners with steel hardware and white plastic heads
Back braces; 5 spruce ladder braces
Top braces: 4 spruce ladder braces
Neck and end blocks: poplar with bevelled edges
Linings: kerfed poplar
DimensionsTotal instrument length: 91.7 cm (36-3/32”)
Fingerboard length: 40.6 cm (16”)
Nut to bridge: app. 57 cm (22-7/16”)
Nut to neck and body joint: 30.5 cm (12”)
Fingerboard width at nut: 4.4 cm (1-23/32”)
Fingerboard width at body joint: 5.6 cm (2-3/16”)
Width of upper bout: 24.1 cm (9-15/32”)
Width of lower bout: 33.7 cm (13-¼”)
Width of waist: 20.3 cm (8-1/32”)
Body depth at neck: 8.2 cm (3-7/32”)
Body depth at bottom: 9.7 cm (3-13/16”)ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00704
On View
Not on view
1900 ca.
1926-1928 ca.