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Oscar Schmidt Hawaiian Guitar, 1920s
Standard size, all solid Hawaiian koa wood. Original green paper label reads: “Hawaiian Guitar by Oscar Schmidt”. Set up for Spanish style playing with recent neck reset. Several cleated top cracks. All original finish with no over-spray.
Stella Decalcomania Concert Guitar, circa 1910
Small pre-1920 Headstock logo. All birch construction, several repaired top cracks, one repaired side crack near heel, all professionally repaired and cleated. Recent neck reset. This is a rare early model in excellent playing condition.
Stella Baritone Ukulele, 1920s
This is the first baritone ukulele that Stella Guitars & Other Oscar Schmidt Instruments has come across and it’s fairly rare! It has spruce top with fancy wood purfling and rosette. Top is crack-free, back has one very small hairline crack. Pearloid fretboard with fancy stamped position designs. Original finish has no touch-ups or over-spray. Original tuners work great! No case.
Stella Concert Guitar, circa 1935
Very good condition all birch model. This is only the second Stella guitar seen with a bevel edged top. Gold leaf rosette. New bone saddle, recent neck reset. Headstock “Stella” logo is barely visible, but still there. Comes with original chipboard case.
“National Academy” Concert Guitar by Oscar Schmidt, circa 1930
Excellent original condition. Sunburst finish spruce top, birch sides and back. No cracks or playing wear! New bone saddle, otherwise all original. Colorful inlaid wood purfling and rosette. Recent neck reset. Comes with original chipboard case.
Joseph Nettuno Grand Concert Guitar, circa 1920
This guitar was made by one of the most distinguished Italian American luthiers who built guitars in New York City during the early part of the 20th century. Nettuno guitars are quite rare and rank among the best sounding guitars of the breed commonly referred to as “Galiano” guitars. Original paper label inside reads: “Joseph Nettuno, manufacturer of guitars and mandolins, New York City”. This example definitely shows its age, but has been expertly restored to excellent playing condition. The top is red spruce, sides and back are mahogany. Scale length is 26”, body is 14 3/4” across the lower bout and nut width is 1 3/4”. There is a very old, but stable side repair, several cleated top cracks and a repaired heel. Fresh neck reset, new rosewood fingerboard and frets. Original Waverly stamped tuning machines.
Stella Floral Decalcomania Concert Guitar …Circa 1925 tailpiece model with all solid birch construction. Three repaired and cleated top cracks and one cleated back crack. This guitar has been played and played and it shows it! What’s more, it sounds it! This is an exceptionally loud responsive guitar perfect for playing blues, rags, old-time country, you name it! You want an axe with loads of “mojo”, this is the one! Recent neck set, action is excellent.
Brown Front Stella Decalcomania Concert Guitar
“A. Galiano” label, circa 1925. Solid birch construction, very clean crack-free condition. You can tell this guitar got played a lot by the paint wear on the fingerboard. But the body and neck are in near mint condition! Colorful rosette and banner decals!
Stella Concert Guitar, circa 1934
For pure “Mojo”, this guitar wins the prize! It carries its own history in Greek! There’s a paper Label inside dated 1934 . Hand written in Modern Greek are several lines of poetry, written by an immigrant living in Los Angeles who apparently had a case of the blues. On the headstock it says - “ΓΝΩΘΙ Σ’ΑΥΤΟΝ ” - Know Thyself. Solid birch construction with no cracks. Fingerboard has a silver crystalline finish with inlaid gold sparkle position dots. The finish on the body and neck was customized in the dim reaches of the past, careful to leave the decalcomania rosette intact. This guitar has wonderful patina with more than its share of character.
Stella Jumbo Decalcomania 12-string Guitar, circa 1932
Solid birch construction. 15 3/4” lower bout, 26 3/8” scale, 1 15/16” nut width. A compensated rosewood bridge gives this guitar perfect intonation. The original poplar 12-string neck was twisted and had a damaged peghead, which required replacing the neck. The new neck is poplar like the original, but with two graphite reinforcement rods and a solid ebony fretboard. Body has a nearly flawless original finish with no over-spray and no cracks. This is an exceptionally fine sounding Stella 12-string. It has an enormous bone shaking voice and it plays like a hot knife through butter!
