1940'S Orpheum Maple Archtop

SFIV1967

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Who's selling the guitar in your post btw?
Already sold in 2014...but still all the pictures there: https://reverb.com/item/87714-orpheum-kay-vintage-archtop-1950s-sunburst

And btw, the single cut a way Sunburst is pretty much exactly like the Guitar Bo Diddly made his TV splash 5 months before Elvis did on the Ed Sullivan show, in fact if it wasn't for the Orpheum Badge, I'd say it was pretty close.
There are quite a few differences I notice...Smaller body, no f-holes...

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You are completely correct, someone else pointed that out to Me and I guess I didn't look closely enough. Thank You

Do you know anything about the United Code Guitars please?
It seems that I do have a United Guitar with an Orpheum badge with United markings and I'm trying to put a puzzle together which has very few pieces
 
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