An old friend of mine has what we think is a prewar Gibson teardrop shaped 6 string. There is no makers name on the head - it looks very much Gibson, there are Grover "open" type tuners, plus there is a number on the "screwed on" flat back 223-2 with a No 1 directly underneath the 3.
Is there anyone out there who might shed some light on this old timer?
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Gibson Teardrop?
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Bob Mainwaring
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mikey
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Gibson made teardrop shaped lap steels in the late 30's for Montgomery Ward, Also the Kalamazoo brand, Recording King, It could have been made by Gibson, but, it's not a Gibson. Oval shaped Blade pickup?...sorta scalloped peghead,like a new epiphone?...Post a pic if you can,
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Aloha,
Mike<p ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b">[This message was edited by mikey on 11-16-99]</FONT></P>
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Ian McLatchie
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Similar instruments also appear with the Cromwell label. The one Cromwell version I played (a seven-string) was relatively ornate, with mother of pearl inlay logo on peghead. If there's no name on the peghead of the instrument in question, it's almost surely a Recording King or Kalamazoo, which had stencilled logo only. Nice instrument, worth hanging on to.