Vague indeed!

Ahhh these are some pictures

Posting pictures here is a nightmare on Elm Street

quote:Originally posted by skydogPosting pictures here is a nightmare on Elm Street I seen it upload and said it was good to go ???????

I click on your user name/activity and I see 4 photo uploads there. These are all visible when I click on them. I'm not sure, but I believe you have to move them to the post after you have loaded them to your account.

Look around there and I believe you will see what you have to do to bring them up to the post.

And that’s the rub, moving them to the post. I’ve felt it was a size limit error but you get nothing stating that or what the size limit is.

I'm probably the most challenged by these things of anybody here but:

Go to your photos, click on and drag ea. one into your post. That should work.

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I wasn’t able to drag it, but I was able to click on it, click copy link, and then paste it into a post.

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I wasn’t able to drag it, but I was able to click on the picture, click copy link, and then paste it into a post.

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I think you guys can view then now....good lord I am cimouter challenged to say the least

I see one picture! Yes, it's a mid '30s Regal.

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I think you guys can view then now....good lord I am cimouter challenged to say the least

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Don't feel like the Lone Ranger

Posting pictures from one's photo library on their phone is pretty easy once you get the hang of it, but I won't go into that for now.

And it's a Dobro - not a Dorbo. 

I'm pretty sure it's a version of the Model 25. 

As wildeman posted, it's a mid 1930's Regal built Dobro. We know it's from around 1935-37 because in those years many (not all) Regal built Dobros were lacking in serial numbers stamped onto the tip of the headstock. I have a Model 37 from that era with no serial number. Apparently there is no one still among the living who knows why this occurred. 

A few years prior, Dobro in Los Angeles licensed Regal of Chicago to begin building Dobros. The idea was that Regal would handle sales and distribution in the eastern U.S. with Dobro in L.A. taking care of the western half of the country.

Eventually in 1936 all Dobro production in California ceased as the company pulled up stakes and moved to Chicago. From 1937 to just prior to the U.S. involvement in WWII in 1941 all Dobros were built by Regal of Chicago. Once the war was imminent, they could no longer get metal as it was required for the war effort, so that was the end of new Dobro guitars for close to 20 years. Regal never built another one and the company went out of business in 1954.

Though Regal was licensed by Dobro to build guitars there must have been some contractual agreement where they could institute some of their own designs - like f-holes on the top instead of round holes with screen ring covers. The f-holes were found on lower priced models like the 19 and the 25. The more expensive models with higher numbers had round holes and metal screen rings. 

What is unusual about this Model 25 is the blonde top of laminate Sitka spruce. Most had dark tops of made from other wood species. 

There is one exactly like this guitar on page 197 of Steve Toth's excellent book on prewar wood body Dobros, Dobro Roots.  He calls it a Model 25.  Other Regal innovations on this guitar - the poinsettia coverplate, and the "trapeze" tailpiece.