This is a green label Regal Parlor guitar with a lovely decal decoration in the face from the 30s. Regal is one of the legendary Chicago builders of the 20th Century.  It was one of the largest manufacturers in the 1930s and became known for a wide range of stringed instruments, including guitars, mandolins, and ukuleles. 
 
This guitar arrived in pieces, a gift from a friend who said “this guitar needs to go to you.  Nobody else will put in the work to fix it”.  He was right too!  It took about 10 years build up the skill set to repair the Mother of Toilet Seat fingerboard and learn to re-fret it. I passed that skill level a while ago, but only recently returned to finish this one.
 
The body is solid birch top, back and sides, the neck is poplar, the fingerboard is a Mother of Toilet seat with black paint to emulate inlays. There is a lovely decal that covers most of the area between the bridge and the endpin which is in very good condition. It has the original tuners, in good working order, the original ebony nut, the original bridge and a new ebony end pin.  

Work Done: I repaired the damaged Mother of Toilet Seat fingerboard (all original) and re-fretted the guitar with new brass frets (.060 vs the original .054). the body was in pieces with multiple loose braces and I removed the back, cleaned and re-glued the braces, repaired two top splits and several breaks and warps in the guitar. I also glued a thin strip of mahogany to the bridge plate (a long, narrow strip of spruce) to support and stabilize the top. The original bridge was intact and I cleaned and re-glued the bridge in place once the body was re-built. I re-set the neck to the correct angle. I replaced the original brass fret wire saddle with a new and slightly larger size brass fret (.08)
The neck re-set turned out perfectly and the set up gave this guitar excellent action, slightly below Martin set up specks of 3/32/ on 12th fret Low E and 2/32 on the 12th fret high E. It has the classic V neck and is an excellent fingerstyle guitar. It plays clean all the way the neck and is surprisingly well intimated for having a brass fret saddle.  Being a birch guitar it has a clean bright tone and is light as a feather. 
 
The neck is 1 7/8" at the nut, the scale length is 24 3/8". It comes with its beat up but functional original cardboard case. Video link in the pics.
 
This lovely little guitar is a great example of what these old parlor's can sound and play like it they are set up properly. Talk about character, this has it!
 
I am offering this guitar at a very good price, $475.00. You can own a classic 1930s Chicago built guitar at a workingman's price!