new old stock WWII era Silvertone

[river_driver]

Look what the mailman brought me today:

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A brand-new, 70+ year old Silvertone! With the original Sears & Roebuck price tag still attached! Original price in 1942-ish, $3.25 (I paid about 20 times that. Oh, inflation!).

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Solid birch is my guess, for the body wood anyway.

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Wooden pegs! Check it out! And the strings appear to be some sort of twine. Or maybe they're gut - I have no idea what ancient dessicated gut looks like.

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The glue in the neck joint has given way over time - I can actually see daylight between the heel and the body.

[river_driver]

The original box:
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#825 is either the model number, or stock number.

And the price tag (sorry it's so out of focus, I spent my money on this instead of a passable camera):
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825 also appears on the price tag. I think the numbers at the top, under "Sears Roebuck", are actually the stock numbers, so I'm inclined to think that 825 is the model.

[PhilUSAFRet]

Nice find from that era. Congrats.

[actadh]

70752Pretty, pretty!

As far as #825 being the model number, this ad from the Silvertone World Facebook page has model numbers that end 8XX.