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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 382562, member: 55&quot;]I don&#039;t have a Stella serial number list; but I&#039;ve seen quite a similar Stella lap steel listed as being from 1938, and that seems about right, possibly a little early.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d probably have guessed 1940-1950.</p><p>Stella guitars were originally made by the Oscar Schmidt company, before they discontinued their guitar lines and focused on autoharps; the name was sold to Harmony in 1949.&nbsp; Considered a low to mid-range quality instrument.</p><p>Are you planning to play it, or resell?&nbsp; There&#039;s not a big market for lap steels, because there aren&#039;t a lot of people interested in playing them.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you&#039;re going to be playing it, there are some possible tunings listed in the article at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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