{"id":1215,"date":"2015-06-30T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:35:47","slug":"sears-roebuck-catalogue-anno-1902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Sears &#038; Roebuck catalogue anno 1902"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early days of the 20th century, the Sears company published mail-order catalogues that offered nearly everything:\u00a0clothes, shoes, hardware,\u00a0construction materials, bicycles\u00a0\u2026\u00a0\u00a0they even started to make their own line of automobiles in 1906. Of course, they also carried all kinds of string instruments and double basses (probably imported from\u00a0Germany, at this time). Price point: 18.95 USD to 22.85 USD.<br \/>\nYou even got a fingerboard chart with every instrument: \u201cIt can be firmly gummed to the fingerboard, and in no way interferes with the tone or playing of the instrument.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-1216\" src=\"http:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1902_Sears__bass-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1902_Sears__bass\" width=\"640\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1902_Sears__bass-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1902_Sears__bass-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1902_Sears__bass.jpg 1146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early days of the 20th century, the Sears company published mail-order catalogues that offered nearly everything:\u00a0clothes, shoes, hardware,\u00a0construction materials, bicycles\u00a0\u2026\u00a0\u00a0they even started to make their own line of automobiles in 1906. Of course, they also carried all kinds of string instruments and double basses (probably imported from\u00a0Germany, at this time). Price point: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}