Doing Things Wrong

From the Sears Catalog

Danelectro Silvertone 1448 Guitar
Danelectro Silvertone 1457 Guitar
Danelectro Silvertone 1472 Amplifier
Danelectro Silvertone 1450 Guitar
Danelectro Silvertone U-1 Guitar
Harmony Silvertone 1478

Here is a selection of items you could get from the Sears catalog, once upon a time.

Sears dropped Silvertone as a brand in 1972, but Samick (Korea) bought the name in 2001 and started a new line of instruments, including some reissues of the old models.


This pretty little thing is a Harmony H617 Bobkat. The H-bodied series of guitars, originally known as the Silhouette, began in 1963 and ended in 1973. This one is from 1972 or 1973. Harmony built a number of guitars for Sears under the Silvertone name, at first as a step up from the Danelectros, and ultimately replacing them. See the Silvertone 1478.

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