Vintage stradolin

[Petermurphy3]

Could someone please tell me the rarity and value of this very old guitar

[MikeEdgerton]

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]

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 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.