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Vintage Paramount guitar (Bristol)
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Vintage Paramount B Archtop, F-Hole, Acoustic guitar 1930s??
There is a clean crack behind the headstock that needs to be glued. It plays fine and sounds great.
Gig bag included.
In 1934, the William L. Lange Company (New York) debuted the Paramount guitar series - and some of the models were built by the C.F. Martin guitar company. However, Lange´s company went out of business in the early 1940s. In the late 1940s, the Paramount guitar line was reintroduced and distributed by Gretsch & Brenner (source: Tom Wheeler, American Guitars).
But it looks like no later than 1942, a Paramount line of guitars were built by Harmony. A long time later, the brand was used again for some lower end models, at the end of the Harmony production time (ca 1975).