The S.S. Maxwell brand was owned by the Targ & Dinner Music Company of Chicago and lasted from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. S.S. Maxwell instruments were made by Regal and Harmony - who built standard flat-top acoustics & ukuleles, but Kay also made S.S. Maxwell acoustic guitars with f-holes and resonator guitars.

Source: Guitar Stories: The Histories of Cool Guitars. Michael Wright. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1 Jan 2000

Orangewood was launched in 2018 as an acoustic guitar and ukulele brand. The brand is owned by Praxis Musical Instruments Inc. of Orange, California. Orangewood instruments are designed and distributed in the USA but are made elsewhere (e.g. Indonesia).

Source: Orangewood website (3 August 2020)

Bruce McGuire (1948 - 2012) apprenticed with Arthur E. Overholtzer who taught him the art of building a guitar. He was making guitars part time from around 1969 onwards. McGuire collaborated in the writing of the book, Classic Guitar Making, and continued to build instruments until his death in 2012. He combined his skills as a teacher with his enthusiasm for music and industrial arts and his belief in education to found a Ukulele-building class in local junior high schools, Arts in the Afternoon, which was funded by the Sunrise Rotary of Santa Cruz.

Source: Bruce Robert McGuire obituary. Santa Cruz Sentinel. November 28, 2012.

Source: Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers By Susan Caust Farrell. 1981

The Noah ukueles brand was established around 2012 as part of the Saigon Guitars company by Matthew Cohen. The instruments are handmade in Vietnam in a workshop led by Ton That Anh.

Source: Noah ukuleles website (5 June 2020)

John P. Hafner (1856 - 1929) and Eugene H. Sutphin (1876-1965) founded a musical instrument and small good company in Philadelphia . J.P. Hafner was connected with the small goods trade for many years, having previously been employed by the firm of Klemm Brothers from 1873 until it closed in 1877 and thenseveral other large dealers of musical instruments including Zimmerman (harp house) . E.A. Sutphin also had many years of training in the business - he was formerly connected with the firm of Robert C. Kretschner. In 1911 they organized the firm of Hafner & Sutphin at 149 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia as jobbers of musical instruments and small goods. In 1921 they moved their premises to a four storey building at 925 Arch Street in 1921. The ground floor was the sales and show rooms with the other floors used for storage. They had a complete line of merchandise.

Tyko Runesson is a Swedish luthier who now works in Switzerland. He has been building guitars under the Runesson brand name since 2006 and currently makes a wide range of electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments.

Source: Runesson Custom Instruments website (14 May 2020)

Roy Eneas has been making guitars since the 1980s as well as being an Artist, Illustrator, Cartoonist and Musician. Based on the South Coast of England.  Roy was taught most of his woodworking skills by his father Dennis, who was a cabinet and furniture maker.
Roy specialises in building Jazz Guitars in the style of the original Selmers made between 1932 - 1952.

Source: Royal Gypsy Jazz Guitars website (30 April 2020)

Royalist was a brand name of RCA-Victor - there was a full range of Royalist instruments and also amplifiers.