Petermurphy3
Aug-29-2017, 5:46pm
Could someone please tell me the rarity and value of this very old guitar
MikeEdgerton
Aug-29-2017, 7:07pm
Probably late 1970's, imported (most likely from Japan, perhaps Korea), no connection to the Strad-O-lin mandolins. Value is not a whole lot.
allenhopkins
Aug-29-2017, 10:38pm
One must remember that the Strad-O-Lin brand was used by Sorkin, a distributor, for a variety of musical instruments after the 1950's; I've seen Strad-O-Lin trombones, guitar amps, other miscellaneous instruments, almost all imported. Here's (http://www.horn-u-copia.net/display.php?selby=where%20maker=%22Stradolin%22) a whole page on Strad-O-Lin brass horns.
We don't know who built Strad-O-Lin mandolins in the US, but we can pretty clearly trace the Asian and European sources of these imports.