This is a Silvertone electric guitar made by Danelectro of Neptune New Jersey in 1957. The body color is ivory. It's serial number is 5027. It has one single-coil lipstick pickup (which is split on one side.) The neck is straight and all the electronics work correctly. The neck feels like a standard Danelectro width but just slightly smaller. Everything appears to be original except the knobs. They are Harmony "cupcake" knobs from the 1950s (worth $100 themselves.) The body is the smaller U1 "peanut" size. Check out the "leatherette" binding, crazy!

As you can see, someone started refinishing it but never completed the project. The guitar plays fine. So it can either be a project or just a nice little guitar to jam on. Could be a hot punk rock guitar! The interesting thing is the finish is ivory, as seen on the back, but underneath that is a copper finish. The front even has black paint under the white but that could be primer, possibly. Danelectro would often recycle body parts. So it's entirely possible the ivory is the original factory finish done over a copper or black body. But put a couple of coatings of ivory car paint and you're almost new again! It comes with a gig bag.

The Dimensions are:
    Overall length: 37 1/4"
    Body width: 11 5/8"
    Body thickness: 1 1/2"
    Scale: 25"
    Width of the nut: 1 5/8"
    Depth of the neck at nut: 3/4"

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1957 SEARS CATALOG DESCRIPTION
Solid Body Guitar
with slim, non-warp neck. Two steel bars placed in triangular truss position inside neck. Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. Force-fitted position markers. Accurately fretted. Solid center body core of hardwood balanced by hollow wing sections. 4-way adjustable bridge-up, down, forward and back. Split shell pickup. The only metal enclosed pickup to avoid "shorted turn effect." 3-position switch on both models. Double tone and volume control knobs for each pickup. Lustrous black finish with ivory trim or bronze and ivory lacquer finish.
37 1/4 x 11 1/8 in., With pick, electric cord and instructions.
57 D 01317L--Black single pickup. Shpg. wt. 9 lbs. $4 down ......... Cash $39.95
57 D 01319L--Black dual pickup. Shpg. wt. 9 lbs. $6 down ........... Cash $59.95
57 D 01321L--Bronze single pickup. Shpg. wt. 9 lbs. $4 down ........ Cash $39.95
57 D 01323L--Bronze dual pickup. Shpg. wt. 9 lbs. $6 down .......... Cash $59.95
57 D 0732L--Carrying case for above. Brown simulated leather-covered
chip board. Shipping weight 6 pounds ........ Cash $5.29


DANELECTRO 1957 CATALOG DESCRIPTION
Single...
Three position switch provides 3 instant tone changes. No other single-pickup guitar has this feature. Choice of six modern colors.

BLACK LACQUER, Ivory binding U-1 Black $75
BRONZE LACQUER, Ivory binding U-1 Bronze $75
IVORY LEATHERETTE, Black binding U-1 Ivory $75
JADE GREEN LACQUER, Yellow binding U-1 Green $75
CORAL LACQUER, White binding U-1 Coral $75
AQUA LACQUER, Maroon binding U-1 Aqua $75

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Silvertone-Danelectro U1

Item #: d2032

SOLD

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