If the guitar is the one in your avatar, it looks very similar to a Kent branded guitar I had as a child. By the time I got it in the late 90s it was probably 3rd or 4th hand. I believe they were made by Guyatone. I'm sure Guyatone and other Japanese companies were selling to Sears & Roebuck back in those days, but the guitars were most often branded Silvertone, being Sears' 'house brand' for instruments as of 1940.
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