DeArmond Model RH-C Model Acoustic Guitar Pickup (1953), made in Toledo, Ohio, White Plastic and Chrome finish.
This is a very cool and fairly early example of DeArmond's classic sound hole pickup for flat-top guitars, the RH-C. The date on the original volume pot indicates the middle of 1953, so the pickup was likely made in that period. The unit shows some light wear overall (mostly string marks on the plastic coil cover) but still sounds great. It is currently wired connected to a standard output jack that would need to be mounted in the rim of a guitar, but can be re-wired as needed depending on how it will be used. This pickup was practically ubiquitous in the 1950s and '60s as the primary method of amplifying a flat-top guitar, used famously by Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, Siegel-Schwall and a host of other period blues, folk, and country performers.
Overall length is 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.), 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm.) width. Excellent - Condition.
