Pondering on toy guitars

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GL -- Hello from Washington DC USA.

I'm wondering about a pair of "toy" plastic guitars I recall as a very young kid, that were made by the Emenee Company in the U.S. back around 1965 or so. The one that surfaces a lot on eBay and on those my-first-guitar webpages is the Emenee "Tiger"/Sears "WingDing", a plastic archtop of questionable note and intonation. Pics can be seen at:
http://mewzik.com/research/emenee/guitar/wingding/index.html

The other was called the "Swingin' Cat", but I've found no images or mentions of this model anywhere. If anyone has any info on the Swingin' Cat, speak up please!

BTW, Emenee rounded out its line of toy instruments with the "Big Bash Drums" and the "Polychord Electric Organ". The post-Beatle U.S. manufacturing rush of the 1960s was something to behold.

Alan Peterson
Springfield, Virginia USA

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Roy Rogers (and Trigger) guitar

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Collectors of cowboy movie and Roy Rogers memorabilia might be interested in this Roy Rogers guitar in pretty clean condition. However, guitarists might be alarmed at the string alignment, action and the construction of wood, plastic and heavy pressed cardboard!

G L Wilson

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Plastic toy guitar sells for £655!

Selcol toy guitar dates back to the mid 1960s, and whilst such toys were fairly commonplace with the names of The Beatles and Elvis upon them, this one is an example of the much rarer Rolling Stones model.

(That's approx $935 at the time of writing, by the way).

A pair of rare plastic guitars on eBay

Here are a couple of finds for collectors.
The first is an Elvis Presley plastic toy guitar, made in England by Selcol. I'm guessing its from the 1950s or early 1960s. It's a 4-stringer so some might want to classify it as a ukulele but I doubt very much that it's a player anyway.

Despite missing a couple of parts its in very good condition and would no doubt appeal to the collector of Elvis memorabilia.

Our second dates back to the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies, and is an American Western plastic toy guitar.

This looks to be in immaculate condition, and unlike the Elvis guitar, it is a 6-stringer and has all its string intact. However, I doubt it plays any better.

I love the various western motifs embossed into the top of the guitar. In particular, the guitar playing cowboy on the upper left could have been the inspiration for the decoration we saw on the Brandoni Telecaster recently.