Brand : Montgomery Wards - (not a brand) M. Wards was a catalog distributor. Later M. Wards used the Airline brand.
Distributed by Montgomery Wards

Guitars shown below were made by Harmony and sold under the Montgomery Wards brand. It doesn't mean that all Montgomery Wards guitars were made by Harmony.

Montgomery Wards sold guitars in their catalogs, and many of them (before 1955) had no brand on headstock, only a generic logo. From 1955 M. Wards started to use the Airline brand for guitars in their catalog.

• Electric Archtop

• 8384 (1951-1952) - Electric Archtop - Electric Archtop - Sunburst -  15 These were equivalent to Harmony H51 and are stamped H54 or H8884 (Wards catalog reference : 8384 then 8884). Body depth about 3"1/2. Check also the very similar Silvertone S1320. Some are reported to be stamped H57, but not to be confused with the later model H57 "Roy Smeck", which has a thinner 2"3/4 body. - (based on Harmony H51)

• 8369 (1954) - Electric archtop - Electric Archtop - Reddish mahogany -  15 All birch electric archtop with one "hershey bar" pickup an one outboard volume potentiometer with jack cord attached. Compares to early Harmony Hollywood models H37 or H39. - (based on Harmony H39)

• 8380 (1956) - Electric archtop cutaway - Electric Archtop - Sunburst
  Full body archtop with "Hi-Fi" P13 pickups - later model is 8410, with trussrod, from 1958 - (based on Harmony H62)

• 8358 (1956-1960) - Roy Smeck electric archtop - Electric Archtop - Midnight blue -  3 Thin body ( 2 3/4 inches) Roy Smeck electric archtop with one P13 pickup. Birch body construction. Added golden sparkle on dark blue finish from ca. 1958. Trussrod from 1960. This guitar is the very same model as the one sold as Harmony H56. - (based on Harmony H56)

• 8410 (1958-1960) - Electric archtop cutaway - Electric Archtop - Sunburst
  Full body archtop with "Hi-Fi" P13 pickups - neck with trussrod (previous model was 8380 without trussrod) - (based on Harmony H62)
• Electric hollowbody

• 7208 (1961-1963) - Roy Smeck (Stratotone) - Electric hollowbody - Natural and black -  70 Roy Smeck signature version of the hollowbody Stratotone. Sold in 1961 Montgomery Ward catalog (Some models wears the usual "Airline" brand, and not the Roy Smeck signature) - 2 "diamonds" pickups. - (based on Harmony H7208)

• Electric solid body

• 8379 (1956-1957) - Stratotone - Electric solid body - Gold -  30 Stratotone neck thru body with one "Hershey bar" pickup - (based on Harmony H44)

• Acoustic flatop
• H1076 (1942-1943) - Red Foley - Acoustic flatop - Sunburst -  6
  Cow-boy guitar. "Smooth Trailin" and "Red Foley" stenciled around a cowboy hat. Pin bridge with bone saddle, celluloid bindings on body top edges. Stamped H1076. (Another "Red Foley" was sold by Wards, but made by Richter, with a different stencil showing a cowboy riding a horse by a river in the moutain).

• 8290 (1947-1952) - Roy Smeck Grand Concert - Acoustic flatop - Sunburst -  29 Early "figure 8" shape of the "Grand Concert" body size. Spruce top, mahogany body, w/b/w bindings, pinless bridge. One (early ?) model was reported stamped H2453 (with a white pickguard). - (based on Harmony H1203)

• 8282 (1951-1954) - Flat top scenic - Acoustic flatop - Stenciled with wagon scenes -  16 Cowboy guitar with "pioneer days style scenes" (same scenes as "pioneer days" and "wagon wheels" earlier models). Model number is 8280 in 1954 catalog.

• 8296 (1954) - Roy Smeck - Acoustic flatop - Reddish brown Auditorium size flat top with spruce top

• 8333 (1954-1957) - Roy Smeck super auditorium - Acoustic flatop - Black with metal bindings -  30 16 1/2 inches body flat top with spruce top and white pickguard - "perma-sheen" metal bindings. Later was model 8335 with checkered bindings. Wears the Harmony brand but was distributed by Wards catalog. Some are reported with a H1253 stamp. - (based on Harmony H1250)

• 8286 (1954-1960) - Standard size flat top - Acoustic flatop - Sunburst with faux-flame All birch Stella style. Contrasted alternating painted frets.

• 8330 (1956) - Colored standard size flat top - Acoustic flatop - Copper and yellow with metal strips
  Colorama series with "permasheen" metal - (based on Harmony H1008)

• 8335 (1959-1960) - Roy Smeck grand auditorium - Acoustic flatop - Black -  11 16 1/2 inches body flat top with spruce top and white molded pickguard - Checkered bindings. Replaced model 8333, which had aluminium bindings. Wears the Harmony brand but was distributed by Wards catalog. - (based on Harmony H1250)

• 7030 (1961-1963) - Roy Smeck Grand Concert - Acoustic flatop - Black -  20 Spruce top, birch body. To add confusion to sizes, Montgomery Wards catalog describe it as "Grand Concert Super-Auditorium". - (based on Harmony H162)

• Lapsteel
• 8350 (1956-1957) - Roy Smeck lapsteel - Lapsteel - Black/ivory
  "Tone-Emphasizer" (P13) pickup. Legs were not an option in the 1956 Wards catalog. - (based on Harmony H7)