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Can someone help me identify this bass in the pic? Could it be a Silvertone or Epiphone bass?....I don't know the year this pic was taken, but I suspect it was '60's or so.......thanks!

Roger

A rebranded Silvertone MIJ, there were tons of cheap guitars & bass like this in the early & mid 60's. Really they are JUNK.

This is what is listed under the pic. "My Sister with my Epiphone Bass and my Epiphone lead guitar".

Jim

It is a Teisco Del Ray, I have one just like it. I used it for years in a band I played bass in. It is long scale and believe it or not sounds excellent. Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers uses one too. Good vintage bass for a low price. They had a 6 string guitar that mirrored it with a hole cut out of the body for a handle grip way before Steve Vai's Ibanez came along. Are you looking to purchase one? I may be able to part with mine.

Bob

Jim (Sleeper) .....

Paul Kirby asked me if I knew whether it was a Silvertone or an Epiphone......the girls in the photo are Paul's sisters.......
Paul is the young man who faced a brain operation back in the 60's, and The Ventures came to his hospital room, and there is a photo of this in The Ventures biography...

Okay, so far it looks like it's a Silvertone of some kind.... I appreciate all your help....and thanks.......

Roger..

Bob.......thanks so much.....mystery solved! ......

Facebook caption notwithstanding, that bass is not an Epiphone. Definitely a Teisco. First one I've seen in red. They're more common in gray and sort of a copper color. Teisco also made a 6-string bass version, as well as a guitar. I've never seen a Silvertone-branded one, but if they were sold through Sears, they'd have had the Silvertone name on them, although they were made in Japan by Teisco. The six-string guitar in the pic, though, is an Epiphone Coronet, made by Gibson in the Gibson plant. They both appear to be mid-'60's. There's a clip on YouTube of George Jones from that period, with Johnny Paycheck on bass playing a Teisco.

Had a genuine teiso Del Rey bought new for $52, back when.

Pelham Blue-ish colour with rosewood neck and two single coils. 3-1 side tunung heads and sliding on-off pup switches, single vol-tone knobs. Body and headsotck were nothing like the one in the pics. Two pointy horns and Fender-oid-lite headstock.

Surprisingly playable and not hideous-sounding.Had to replace the tuning machines as one broke off trying to get to pitch. Gave it away to a buddy....