This is a USA all solid wood birch parlour guitar made sometime around the 1930's and probably catalogued and distributed by Sears & Roebuck. As you can see it's a pretty and sweet example with laurel motifs / decals at the lower bouts and around the soundhole.

First off, the dimensions as best I can measure. Overall length is 36". Lower bout is 13 1/8", upper is 9 1/2" and waist 8". Body length and depth are 17 3/4" and 3 13/16" respectively.  Scale length is 24 1/4" and nut width 1 3/4".

Describing from the top down, the slotted head has the typical square end profile a la Stella and the tuners are original with black celluloid buttons.  No sign of significant wear on the worm gears and the tuners are fully functional if not the smoothest in the world.

The straight neck to me looks to have a good angle to the body and the original neck joint is tight, thank you. Rear of the neck has a nice V profile to fit in the cup of the hand.  The painted fingerboard shows minimal signs of paint loss and with a tad of finger wear around the first few frets.  Radius is flat and the original frets are the thin brass variety.

Body wise it's light but strong with no seam separation and the photos show the level of internal construction.  As to be expected it has scratches acquired in its' lifetime. Has a few cracks which may have been there for decades and being tight are not particularly obvious in the wood grain and hard to show via photos.  Nor are they problematic. One is barely noticeable on the back with one on top between the soundhole and bridge plus another back from the bridge to the rear.  The front is cleated and possibly the rear one also.  Of course the top is ladder braced which gives that dry, punchy, barky, burly, almost metallic tone.  'Laddering' is typically characterised as giving less sustain than X braced tops yet to me this light guitar has plenty of ring to it.  And supposedly you don't get many overtones with ladder bracing which makes it ideal for fingerpicking, blues, ragtime, slide etc.  That said, the Beatles' Gibson J160E's were ladder braced and they did alright!

The original saddle shows cracks which are all glued.  Isn't a great deal of saddle height left but the action suits me for both fingerpicking and slide.  Also the nut is cut a shade low so could be raised which would help the strings' profile to the neck.  Note the top by the bridge shows slight bellying as a result of tension over time; probably this has resulted in the raised action at the lower end of the guitar.

 

Comes with a as new fitted case as shown.  Is a nice snug fit and the arched lid provides increased protection.