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Silvertone Bigsby Electric Guitar Model 1446 Chris Isaak 1960's

Estimated price for orientation: 1 549 $

Category: Electric Guitar
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The popular nickname 
 for the 1446 is the 
  'Chris Isaak'  
  because of a vintage promo picture with Chris hugging a nice 1446. His band is also named 'Silvertone,' and he's been know to pick one onstage and in videos. Elvis Costello and the late  Hubert Sumlin have strummed a 1446 in their time as well.
This guitar has a couple of minor blemishes on it. As seen in pictures there is one on the face of the body and a couple on the head side edge on top of neck. This is just a nice old guitar
The 1446 was  made by our friends at Harmony, and began life as a Bigsby equipped replacement for the popular 'Espanada.' Over the past few years, it has become known as the 'Chris Isaak' model, with its cool good looks and the unusual-shaped pickup bezels holding onto those famous Gibson-made mini-humbuckers.With the retirement of the 1446 and its stagemates the 1454 and the 1439 in 1967, the reign of single-cutaway hollowbody electric Silvertones came to an end.made between 1961-67