guitar of MYSTERY

Ha, the eBay seller is from York, PA, fairly close to where I used to live. When I was a kid, one guitarist in a rock band in my town played a Sekova, which was known to be a Teisco under a different name, and it looked just like the guitar on eBay, and yours. A friend of mine had one which was slightly different. The pickups were the same, however, and the sliding switches.

definitely a teisco.

My first guitar (kind of) = Teisco Del Ray, for obvious-similarities reference:

http://www.myrareguitars.com/teiscosmall.jpg

(I actually found it in a pile of junk in the high-school band closet and took it home for a while. It was very old, and made by a company I'd never heard of, so I eventually bought my own guitar and returned it to the closet. I have to admit, I now almost regret that. I mean, I don't regret not-stealing, but if I'd had the internet around in those days to tell me it was rare or interesting, I'd have appreciated it more.)

Well, to console you a little, when I was in the process of picking up guitar, Teiscos were common but not particularly desirable. Attention didn't start to prick up until a decade later when Guitar Player started running a column by "Teisco del Rey," the nickname of an aficianado of all inexpensive and somewhat odd-looking guitars regarded with fishy eye. Teiscos have gone up in the world since then and that preceded easy access to the Web by a bit.

I don't need consolation, I paid like $100 for it at a thrift store and it sounds terrible, so I wasn't thinking it was a supervaluable item.

Oh you were probably talking to Nabs.