Silvertone - Japan Made Models (Written by Jimmy Noise / June 2012) Silvertone was a brand developed by Sears Roebuck Company in the early 30’s. The Silvertone brand replaced the Supertone brand on musical instruments sold by Sears. If it has a model number that matches any of the above, then it is a Silvertone guitar.
Recently got a nice silvertone 31 from a good friend - As far as I know the '14560' is the serial number, that would be the month/date/year in there, and i am guessing by what i found on the internet this is a 1960 guitar, and then last 3 numbers would indicate how many they made that year, well if mine is '001' I think mine is the 1st one made that year?
Re: Silvertone 319.14059 Posted by Mike Heath on Thu, - 04:18. The most I can tell you is that this particular Silvertone was made by Teisco in either 1968 or 1969.

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Silvertone - Japan Made Models

(Written by Jimmy Noise / June 2012)

It looks like a Silvertone Model 1311 from around 1958-9. Manufactured by Valco of Chicago, you should be able to determine the exact year of manufacture if there's a small metal plate with a serial number on the back of the neck near the nut.

Silvertone was a brand developed by Sears Roebuck Company in theearly 30’s.The Silvertone brand replacedthe Supertone brand on musical instruments sold by Sears.The brand was used on guitars sold bySears; however Silvertone never actually made guitars. All the manufacturingwas outsourced to various guitar suppliers. These included US manufactures andUS importers. To date there has been no information that confirms that theSilvertone directly imported directly from guitar manufactures in Japan. By Searshaving its own brand, it was able to market its guitars as an exclusive SearRoebuck product. The brand was discontinued in 1972. It is not clear why itceased, but Sears Roebuck continued to sell guitars into the 70’s, but notbranded as Silvertone.

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This sight will focus on electric guitars made in Japan andsupplied to Silvertone.

SilvertoneLogos

There were two logos used on Silvertone guitars. The first onebeing the word Silvertone painted on the headstock in a thin line. The painthad no clear coat over it and often has rubbed off over the years. Great careshould be taken when cleaning these guitars as to not remove the logo.The logo was the same design as used on otherSilvertone models made in the US.This logo was used on Teisco built Silvertone guitars manufactured up to theend of 1965.

Guitars manufactured after 1965 got a newly designed logo. It’sunknown who designed the new logo, but the new logo was only used on the Teiscoimported guitars by WMI.

Around 1969 imported guitars sold by Sears began to have the new around silver disc. This marked the end of the Silvertone brand on Sears’sguitars. These guitars were supplied by various manufactures in Japan. Theguitars generally had a sticker on the neck plate or the model number wasstamped into the neck plate. These practices fell in line with Kawai builtguitars, not Teisco. But some Teisco’s did have this logo.

Models Supplied byWestheimer Sales Co.

Westheimer Sales was probably the first importer to supply importguitars to Silvertone. It’s assumed that a lot of these would have beenacoustic guitars. However they may have supplied some of the early builtTeiscos as well. It is unclear what actually happened because around the sametime Teisco was in the process of changing distributors in the US.

Models Supplied by WMICorporation– (Teisco)

WMI Corporation became the exclusive importer of Teisco builtguitars in 1965. They supplied Teisco guitars to Silvertone during the mid1960’s. The models supplied were either similar or exact models that were soldunder the Teisco brand. The modifications were often slight, but enough to beable to identify a guitar as being either a Silvertone or a Teisco brandedguitar.

The models shown below were built by Teisco and supplied toSilvertone by WMI Corporation. By clicking on the model number, additionalinformation is available.

Model 1418	Model 1424	Model 1435	Model1436	Model 1437	Model 1438
Catalogue No:57 P 1418 L	Catalogue No:57 P 1424 N	Catalogue No:________	Catalogue No:________	Catalogue No:_______	Catalogue No:_____
Model 1487	Model 1495	Model No: 759-1435-1	Model No: 759-1436-1	Model No: 759-14371
Catalogue No:________	Catalogue No:57 G 1495L	Catalogue No: ________	Endless love 2014 hollywood movie in hindi dubbed worldfree4u english. Catalogue No: ________	Catalogue No:________

If you if have a guitar that you think is a Teisco builtSilvertone guitar and it is missing its logo, there are a few things that youcan check to determine if this is your model;

·Firstlycheck the model tag. If it has a model number that matches any of the above,then it is a Silvertone guitar.

·Thesecond way to tell is look at the logo area and check the shape of anyremaining glue residue in the shape of the logo.

·Checkthe nail holes of the logo. Sometimes the logo was nailed