Your guitar does have a spruce rather than birch top which is a big plus when it comes to desirability.īut literally thousands of these ladder braced concert size guitars were built and sold.

When talking about Regals about the only ones that have any real value are the spruce top jumbos or very ornate smaller body instruments. But often about all you can do is narrow it down to a decade. In this case I lucked out as apparently these are rare as hen's teeth. It showed up in the Montgomery Wards catalog and turned out to be a Regal-made Recording King Style 964 which were offered between 19. At $30 I figured I had nothing to lose as the pre-War Kluson bent tab tuners with covers were worth more than that. Odd looking thing with an oval soundhole and pickguard. Happened to me recently when I bought a guitar with no ID on it. As already noted you might get lucky and be able to identify the style in a catalog. The tuners appear to be enclosed so are more than likely replacements as these do not start showing up on any but the most expensive of guitars until the late 1940s. Higher end pre-War Regals had a fancier logo and post-War instruments came with a blue oval logo.

The oval green label with the crown (as well as the lack of ornamentation) indicates lower end model made in the 1930s or early 1940s. On top of that, if you play folk or bluegrass. With a Regal resonator guitar in your collection, there's no place you can't play and be heard in any style. There is no serial number on the outside of the. I've been tasked with dating an old Regal resonator, but can't find any accurate way to do so.

Regal Guitar Serial Numbers