r/Vintageguitars

I’m hoping someone recognizes the construction or decoration well enough to identify the maker of this wild guitar. At first glance, it looks like a mail-order catalog guitar from the 1950s or ’60s, but it’s not quite like the typical Chicago-made instruments I’m familiar with. This thing is a freak. I’ve named it “Monster.” 
I’d love to know where it came from. There’s no label, stamp, serial number or logo anywhere. It’s a 25" scale, 19-fret parlor guitar with a burgundy finish and an unusual cream geometric/sunburst stencil around the edges and soundhole. The fingerboard has winged dot markers, and it has a floating moustache-style wooden bridge with a brass saddle and a metal tailpiece. The black wooden pickguard, attached with three chunky hex-head screws, looks very much like a later homemade addition. There are signs of other repair work, including a shimmed bridge and relocated tailpiece. 
The really interesting part is the construction. It’s ladder-braced, but the top braces are unusually tall while the back braces are much flatter. There’s also a perpendicular brace between the two braces flanking the bridge area. This doesn’t resemble the typical Chicago-made guitars I know, and it doesn’t immediately strike me as Japanese or other Asian-made, either. 
Does anybody recognize the stencil decoration or that bracing pattern? Any ideas on manufacturer, model, date, or country of origin?

Hello you all. I’ve just decided to buy an electric guitar, I’ve always enjoyed guitar playing but I never took it very seriously, I like to write songs and learn about music. I’ve recently done an “electric guitar maintenance” course, where I learned how to set up and do the general maintenance to electric guitars. I’m planning to take my guitar journey more seriously and with the money I saved this summer working as a waiter I bought this samick tv20 from 1995 (according to the seller, today I will check it) for 380€.
The luthier who taught me, recommended me this guitar and said it is a really good pick; although I would like to know if anyone here has try it out, I haven’t been able to find too much information about it but it looks good and allegedly it has all the original components. I’m a bit scared about the fretboard, because is an old guitar and I want to start playing asap.
Please let me know if anyone has one of these, I have found all good opinions about this guitar and I think it has personality. Thanks!

Hello all. Semi-amateur musician. Not a collector. Always wanted a hollow body (or semi-hollow body) electric.

Picked this beauty up. Cleaned it and put some new strings on. All electronics and switches work. It did appear to have a bow in the neck although it doesn't seem as bad with lighter strings on it. I did do some research but figured I'd come here for some more info. Teisco Crown import from the 60s? Made in Japan. Bridge appears to be collapsed which sounded like a normal occurrence for something of this age. Is it worth taking somewhere to be looked at? It sounds great and plays nice.