Perhaps you’ll get lucky, but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the market in old Valco made laps to surge. There just are not that many of us who actually play, or collect vintage lap steels to fetch the over five hundred prices I see sellers asking. Even then, most of us expect to pay less than the book price, not more. The student Deluxe often also sells for under two hundred.Ĭheck out the Vintage Guitar price guide, and then realize that the price they are showing is for excellent all original condition, with original case.
Even cheaper is the Supro Jet Airliner, and the Spectator, which sell generally for under two hundred. They all sell for about the same price, and sound similar, nasty. Some of the Supro models include: Airline, Silvertone, Clipper, standard Comet ( no legs), Irene, Professional, Special, Student Deluxe, Studio, and the Supreme. The Clipper and the Irene models date back to the forties, but do not fetch any higher prices. Those exceptions are going for as much as double the a fore mentioned prices. The exact Supro lap steel model doesn't matter much regards price, except those with legs, the Supro 60 with amp in case, or the twin with two necks. The actual sell price hasn’t changed much over the last few years, and the trend does not seem to me to be going higher. Yes, on rare occasion you’ll see one that sold for a slightly higher price in super all original condition, with original case, but Supro lap steels rarely if ever sell for the high prices I see being asked.
Four hundred is high, and average in very good to excellent condition is $250-$300, as of mid 2010. Enter and search for Supro lap steel, and related lap steels, and see what did not sell outlined in red, and what did sell outlined in green. Just go to the completed listings for Ebay in the site map. I often see unrealistic prices being asked for Supros on the used market. ( More on the related, near identical Valco produced lap steels later) Some of us do like the Supro lap steels specifically because they have a raunchy, dirty, dark and rather nasty sound that works well on blues, and some rock styles. Supro was National Dobro’s budget brand, low end, and collectors today generally have a rather low regard for most of the Valco made Supro lap steels, and the various sister, and brother Valco made lap steels. Traditional steel styles such as Hawaiian, western swing, jazz, or old time clean country blues do not work so well on the Supros. Their hand wound pickups when used to over drive a tube amp can produce down and dirty blues tones. Supro brand lap steels were manufactured by Valco for the parent company National from the mid thirties through the mid sixties. Supro Lap Steel Guitar - Valco manufactured Published by dow207 I'm in Staten Island but work in LIC so I can meet up in either location.īelow is some info I found on the company:
Looking to do a local pickup and avoid having to box and ship it. Included in sale are some strings that are still in their respective packages (but they're old and probably oxidized though never used), random finger picks, and a Stevens steel bar. Please refer to pics for condition of guitar and case. I bought this in 1991, used it a couple of times and it has sat in a closet ever since. Supro Lap Steel Guitar from 1949 in excellent condition.
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