Is this guitar an Epiphone lap steel? If so, you may have an Eddie Alkire EHarp(pronounced Ay-harp)--it was a pre-pedal steel effort to create a fuller harmonic sound, and the tuning was supposed to be: -
(lowest pitched strings on the bottom, as they would be on your lap)

E
C#
B
A
G#
G
F#
F
E
C#