Vintage Kay Acoustic Guitars
Kay mainly manufactured "department store" style, inexpensive guitars from the 1930's to the 1960's. But they did make some high end, quality archtop guitars. The most collectable Kays are any model with the "Kelvinator" plastic headstock overlay with art deco patterns.
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 Vintage 1940s Orpheum By Kay Dreadnought Guitar Setup Price: $500.00 Time Left: 1d 13h 41m 
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 Vintage Jumbo Boomy Jazz Box Kay Guitar Gibson Strings Price: $369.50 Time Left: 2d 13h 12m
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 Vintage Silvertone Kay Archtop Acoustic Electric Guitar Price: $599.00 Time Left: 5d 6h 6m
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 Old Kraftsman Kay Parlor Guitar Price: $269.95 Time Left: 11d 7h 56m
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 Vintage 1950s Kay Archtop Acoustic Guitar Beauty Clean Price: $695.00 Time Left: 11d 9h 42m
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 Vintage Kay Kraft Recording King Acoustic Guitar Price: $2,000.00 Time Left: 16d 2h 19m
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 Vintage Kay Guitar Acoustic W Ol Gibson Martin Strings Price: $215.00 Time Left: 23d 18h 38m
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 Vintage Antique Kamico â Kay Archtop Guitar Arch Top Price: $595.00 Time Left: 24d 7h 46m
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In 1957 president Sydney Katz introduced the Gold âKâ line of archtop and solid body electric guitars to compete with major manufacturers like Fender, Gibson, and Gretsch.
Valued among collectors, the headstocks from 1957-1960 featured a reverse painted plastic overlay similar to the Kelvinator logo. Unfortunately, Kay had difficulty getting guitar players to take their high end entry seriously, and the Gold line was discontinued in 1962.
