Here some of the pre-war Epiphones in our family (there are a couple more).
As you can tell I am quite a fan of these ...
Felix
P.S. I maintain a website about my research on pre-Gibson Epiphones:
NY Epi Reg - The Unofficial New York Epiphone Registry.
There you find plenty of info about Epiphone instruments (more than most people ever want to know :-).
Centerpiece of my research is the
Registry database documenting about 3700 vintage Epi instruments so far.
(Owners of pre-1956 Epiphones are also invited to contribute info -
see here. Note that my research project is strictly non-commercial.)