Scan of 1968/1969 Selmer guitar catalogue (printed July 1968), showing the entire range of electric and acoustic guitars distributed by the company: guitars by Hofner, Gibson, Selmer and Giannini. Vintage Supro amplifiers also have a great reputation, and are well respected in the recording studio Supro Guitars Today vintage Supro guitars are somewhat collectable, and although eclipsed by the many bigger American guitar brands still fetch reasonable prices. They produced some interesting guitars in the 1960s, including some of the earliest fiberglas-bodied instruments financial pressure necessitated a merger with Kay of Chicago in 1967, but the new comapany only managed to limp on until 1968, before folding and ending all guitar production. The company produced guitars with numerous names on the headstock, with Supro and National being the best known.
Supro guitars were first produced in the 1930s by the National Dobro Corporation (rebranding as Valco in the 1940s), with the first solid body electrics produced in the early 1950s.
