Up for sale is a very cool and quite rare 1930's Selmer branded / Rickenbacher Electro Spanish Round Neck Lap Steel Guitar in Chrome w/ Bake-lite.
Electro String (Rickenbacker) started manufacturing bakelite guitars in 1933. Mostly square necked, Hawaiian or ‘steel’ guitars, they also manufactured round neck, Spanish versions, the Model B. These were designed to be played as normal, fretted guitars.
Henri Selmer & Co. Ltd. sold Model B Spanish guitars in London, although it’s unclear if these were re-badged Rickenbachers, or if the were made under licence in England. The consensus of opinion is, probably the latter.
This particular example has a nice strong pickup and overall is in very good condition. The neck isn't great leading to higher action when fretted. That said, playing with a slide sounds great. Comes complete with its original hard case.