This particular Japanese-made example from 1965 bears the Crown brand insignia on the headstock, although the seller (lawman-mike - who certainly seems to know his stuff) tells us that it is a Conrad. It has a 27" scale length, four pickups with attendant rocker switches, a whammy bar (which looks to be all present and correct, and big pointy body horns that you might expect to see on a Burns.
He does, however, refer to it as a baritone guitar and says that: "They are tuned B to B instead of E to E". Well, that's all dependent on the strings you use. It almost certainly would have been strung E to E originally. (Unless you know differently.)
G L Wilson
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Have had one of these since I bought it used in Hollywood sometime around 1967. Mine never had a logo on it, and no mrkings other than a pencil scribble on the body.Mine however, has a more Conrad like bridge and tremolo.
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