Never take it out of the case...

[Cartwright Thompson]

No affiliation with the seller but this is pretty cool so I thought I’d share:
https://reverb.com/item/10371965-selmer ... ring-1930s

[Mark Helm]

Hmmmm. I suspect it may be one-of-a-kind for a reason

[Jon Light]

As much of a pain as that makes string changing, keeping the case closed is probably the best advice.

[Jim Sliff]

That looks very Valco-made, with a Selmer sticker applied and the thing weirdly modified to be bolted into the case.

French Selmer guitars are very rare. Without provenance I'm a bit suspicious of this one's origins. The cheap price just compounds those suspicions.

[Tony Russell]

It's a Selmer "Portalectric" from about 1952, I've got one. Here's a link about them from a Hofner information site. http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/factfile ... /cat4.html . In the main their guitars were OK.

[Cartwright Thompson]

Thanks Tony. I had a feeling it was authentic.