National Tricone Exploding Palm Tree Resophonic Guitar (1937)

National Tricone Exploding Palm Tree Resophonic Guitar (1937)

$7,500

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National Tricone Exploding Palm Tree Model Resophonic Guitar (1937), Chicago, serial # A-2909. This distinctive 1937 Tricone is one of the most obscure of all National products, so rare whatever name the company may have had for it is lost to history. It is generally referred to as the "Exploding Palm Tree" Tricone, a nickname made up by collectors trying to describe the abstract decorative patterns on the body. This was codified in National reference books and has since become part of the gene