Stud badged guitars were made until '75, with Ampeg guitar production continuing until 1980. Selmer was sold to Magnavox around the same time they bought Ampeg, so it certainly seems plausible they could have made Selmer acoustic badged guitars as an offering for that market. It's been suggested that Magnavox was also responsible for producing Selmer acoustic guitar badges during this time, but that has not been verified. Magnavox produced electric and bass guitars under the Stud badge as well as the successful Ampeg brand. Magnavox/AmpegДЄmpeg was swallowed up by Japanese electrical giant Magnavox in 1971, when they wanted to get in on the electric guitar copy craze of the 1970s. They have been credited with Camel and Fresher badged guitars, although Freshers were also made by Chushin in the late 1970s. This company, which may have been a distributor as opposed to a manufacturer, was a member of the Matsumoto Musical Instrument Association. Possible badged guitars made by the company include: Astrotone, Demian, G-Holiday, Lafayette, Master, Orange, Tamaki and Trump. Badged guitars produced by the Kawai Teisco factories include Apollo, Aquarius, Arbiter, Atlas, Audition, Avar, Ayar, Barth, Beltone, Black Jack, Cameo, Cipher, Concert, Cougar, Crown, Daimaru, Decca, Diasonic, Domino, Duke, Emperador, Heit Deluxe, Holiday, Imperial, Inter-Mark Cipher, Jedson, Kay, Kent, Kimberly, Kingsley, Kingston, Keefy, Lindell, Marquis, May Queen, Minister, Noble, Prestige, Randall, Recco, Regina, Rexina, Sakai, Satellite, Schaffer, Sekova, Silvertone, Sorrento, Sterling, Swinger, Tele Star, Top Twenty, Victoria, and Winston.

Kawai Teisco made their own house brands Kawai, Teisco, Del Rey and Teisco Del Rey. The company also produced the popular Ibanez badge in the 1960s. Kawai Teisco was founded by Atswo Kaneko and Doryu Matsuda. Badged guitars known to have been made by Kasuga include Conrad, Emperador, ES-S, Ganson, Heerby, Hondo, Mei Mei and Roland. Unlike many Japanese manufacturers who outsourced their guitar production in other factories outside the main maker, Kasuga produced all their products in-house. Kasuga guitars were first sold in America in 1972. For a brief period of time the company produced Yamaha acoustic guitars. Kasuga produced their own house brand in Kasuga guitars. There is speculation that Iida may have assisted Moridara for a short period in making Morris badged guitars, but that is not verified. They were mainly responsible for producing acoustic and semi-acoustic rather than electric guitars for major manufacturers Ibanez and Yamaha. Iida is still producing guitars, but mostly in their factory located in Korea. Iidi began manufacturing guitars in 1958 in Nagoya, Japan. Humming Bird made electrics that were copies of Mosrite guitars. Little-known manufacturer in operation in the early 1960s until 1968. I'm unsure at this point if this Tama had any relation to the Tama that existed under Hoshino Gakki Ten. There's some evidence that Tama began producing guitars under their own badge from 1975-1979. Tama eventually took over badged guitar production from STAR Instruments in the mid-1960s. Tama Industries began guitar production from 1962 to 1967 as a factory of Hoshino, producing more badged Ibanez guitars as well as Continental, Crest, Goldentone, Jamboree, King's Stone, Maxitone, Star, Starfield (some), Tulio and Jason. My sole purpose is to help people looking specifically for information on the maker of their MIJ guitar. I don't know if some of the listed guitars are indeed valuable. I have no idea what any given guitar from this period would sell for. In some cases, I won't know because the badge you have may be extremely rare and virtually unknown to even seasoned collectors.ДЄnd just a quick note: I do not buy or sell guitars. Listed below are the major manufacturers, known badges, and suspected badges to the best of my knowledge in written and list form to make it easy to find out who made your guitar. And sometimes, the guitar that is supposed to be an MIJ guitar is actually made elsewhere (Korea, Indonesia) because production was moved during this period in history. which doesn't always help in identifying a maker. Parts from other guitars would be used in the making of a particular badge for a period of time because it was all the manufacturer had to hand.

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