Many models were almost identical under different brands, often with a different logo, pickup configuration, or sometimes a different finish. They were truly on the cusp of culture and taste through the 1940s.Д«y the late '50s and early '60s, Valco had grown to be an enormous manufacturer, and had several brands it was making and marketing itself, such as National and Supro, as well as a ton of others being distributed under other brands like Airline (Montgomery Wards), Oahu, Silvertone (Sears), Custom Kraft, Gretsch and many others. They embraced a very ornate, Art Deco and early Moderne look to many of their guitars, with beautiful ornate Egyptian influenced motifs for position markers and spare two tone streamline body designs that recall the designs of concept cars of the day. It was a company that was on the cutting edge, and its innovations of this time include the first archtop with no soundhole for fighting feedback, and first 2-pickup electric guitar, a 6-coil pickup, and some of the most deluxe double and triple neck slide guitars ever produced. Valco's name was an amalgam of Valco's primary owners first names (Victor Smith, Al Frost, and Louis Dopyera), and with the move saw a shift from acoustic instruments to amplifiers and electric instruments. The Supro brand followed its brother lines as the mother company Valco was born in 1936 as part of a move from California to Chicago. The Supro brand began in 1935 as a line of guitars being made by National-Dobro, the famous line of resonator guitars and electric slides. Even has the original cloth input jack.В The sound is great. Other than the volume and tone knobs beingВ replaced, this Supro appears to be all original.

This is a 1950 Supro with the original case.

You are looking at a really cool Lap SteelВ guitar.

Supro lap steel guitar history