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Author: mbrandt
Date: 2000-08-16 04:59
Does anyone have any info on silvertone clarinets?? i have one and need to find out more info...it's wood and has this number engraved in it 38408. I think it's either made by Sears-Roebuck&Co or Montgomery Ward Inc. any info would be great! Thanks!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-16 12:26
It was a trade name employed by Montgomery-Ward. No idea who really made it. Almost all of these kinds, especially resold by a mass-marketer like M-W, would be of student quality and not worth very much on the market today. Perhaps $25 or so at a flea market.
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Author: Fred McKenzie
Date: 2000-08-16 14:40
mbrandt wrote:
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Does anyone have any info on silvertone clarinets??
MB-
My first clarinet was a Silvertone, ordered from the Sears catalog in about 1952. Mine was a plastic instrument with brittle keys. Within the first month, a key had broken while being carried in its case on my bicycle. My parents got their money back, and found me a used wooden instrument instead.
Being made of wood, yours may be a better grade instrument than mine was. Regardless, I would guess that some other company made it for Sears, just as other companies make their washers and dryers today.
Silvertone was a Sears trademark for various items they sold, including their radios and televisions. My recollection is that Montgomery Ward's equivalent trademark was "Signature" or "Airline".
Fred
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-08-16 17:01
Fred,
The Silvertone clarinet is listed as a Montgomery-ward item in The New lanwill Index - which, however, has a few known inaccuracies. I also know that Silvertone was a Sears house brand (my first guitar amp was a Silvertone twin-twelve 100W amp that looked and sounded amazingly like a Fender twin twelve when I replaced the barely passable speakers & put JBLs in it).
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