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Other brands : H1304 Cremona IV was also sold as Weymann Model IV

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Original catalog description

[1940 catalog]
Cremona MODEL IV - Grand Auditorium size, Carved spruce top. Back and sides of curly maple, in high polished Cremona brown sunburst finish. neat black and white bindings on body. Engraved celluloid headpiece. Bound oval rosewood supended type fingerboard with large pearlette inlays. Tune-Rite individual machines. Adjustable bridge. Compensating tailpiece.
No. 1304 : $35.00

Original price

  1940 : $35.00

Verified production year(s) : 1935-1940
others years possible, not verified.

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• Robert Gallagher] shirlgallagh@aol.com - 2006-03-12
  Dear sir
  I have a harmony cremona IV that i belive was purchased in the year 1939 but it looks differnt than the ones on this page, do you have anycomment on this. & also would like to purchas an other one, would you know of any for sale, or where i could find one. please let me here from you
  Robert Gallagher
  135 Marcou Rd. Onalaska Wi. 54601
• Paul - 2006-06-29
  I have this guitar that my uncle found and purchased in a pawn shop. Mine is dated 1943 inside. Other than that... looks just like the picture. Mine has some work that needs to be done (a small crack on top and back, a tiny chip out of the headstock), but overall, very nice and playable..
• bcbernd - 2006-07-03
  My Crem IV was recovered from a garbage pile on the streets of Buffalo, Ny. Amazingly all of the splintered pieces of the crushed carved top were inside when my friend gave it to me. I pieced it back together and it is now fairly solid. I am wondering if any aftermarket companies still make a pickup/pickguard for these types. Mine has 4 holes where a pickup once was and I'd live to put it back someday. Save the Harmys!!
• Russ Harris - 2007-08-13
  I have a Harmony exactly the same as this one. The date on the inside is 1943. I love it. I have had to replace it's machine heads. I am lucky to have a very sympathetic lutjier to do these things for me, that is find appropriate style of component to refurbish.Currently I have given the Guitar to him as I want to electrify it. I am hoping he will find a way to do it that does not alter the look of the instrument to much. I did take the scratch plate off as it was pretty loose and indeed I like the plainess of it but I may well put it back on. I also have the original case which i pretty tatty but I intend to bring that back into service as well. I live in Wales and one of the interesting things about this guitar is that in 1950 or thereabouts it was shipped back from Bombay in India to Southampton in Britain. I can only conjecture on an American Sears and Roebuck guitar that lived for a while in India efore coming back to the Unitd Kingdom