Yes, tough to find much reference to the Vibratone brand related to mandolins. There are some really knowledgeable people here who may have some idea of the maker and may know something about that brand name. Sometimes they can tell from the hardware or the body style a bit about the maker. I'm not one of them, but I'm always interested in reading what they have to say, and I like the old, cheap instruments like this one. I'm into restoring old cheap instruments for the fun of it.
I like the shield style labels like the one your mandolin "used" to have - and what's left of it is cool. I think that gold leaf and red painted labels were in vogue for some distributors of that period, at any rate, I've seen a few and have an old fiddle with a different distributor's label that's styled as a red and gold shield.
Here's a mandolin bearing a stencil Vibratone label, the blog writer claims it is a Harmony:
https://bluesmandolin.wordpress.com/...tone-1930-49s/
And this guy, scoodledeebebop, claims to have sold a mandolin a year or so back that was labeled as a Vibratone, and it would most likely have been a Kay modeled similarly to one of these, though he didn't post a picture of his Vibratone in his Reddit post. He mentioned that it had this body style that is apparently common to Kay guitars and mandolins of the era.
From Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comm...d_this_guitar/
I know that none of this really helps you, maybe one of the more knowledgeable experts here can tell you more.
I can tell you that this was a cheap entry level mandolin when it was new, and the Vibratone label mandolins do not seem to have been terribly well known. In its current shape, I'd guess the value at $20 - $50
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