Guitar
Trade Name
Lakeside
Date1898-1910 ca.
Place MadeChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Modelpossibly Lakeside
Serial No.349271 5
SignedIllegible ink stamp on back graft, crossed out in pencilMarkingsRubber stamped in black ink on end block: 349271
Impressed on neck block: 5
DescriptionStringing: originally six steel strings
Soundboard: two-piece spruce, narrow grain, broadening toward the flanks
Back: two-piece quarter-cut oak; center strip comprised of angled strips of maple, red-dyed maple, black-dyed maple, and mahogany surrounded on each side by maple, green-dyed maple, and black-dyed maple strips
Ribs: two-piece, quarter-cut oak; no end graft
Head: maple; integral with neck; slotted
Neck: maple; integral with head
Heel cap: rosewood
Binding: white celluloid; trim on top only comprised of angled strips of maple, red-dyed maple, black-dyed maple, and mahogany surrounded on each side by maple, red-dyed maple, green-dyed maple, and black-dyed maple strips
Fingerboard: rosewood with rounded lower edge; 18 steel frets; mother-of-pearl dots behind 5th, 7th, and 10th frets
Nut: ebony
Bridge: rosewood with nickel-silver wire saddle
Tailpiece: nickel-plated steel with decoratively cut outline; secured to lower rib with three slot-headed screws
Tuners: nickel-plated steel with white plastic heads
Endpin: missing
Rosette: angled strips of maple, red-dyed maple, black-dyed maple, and mahogany surrounded on each side by maple, green-dyed maple, and black-dyed maple strips; surrounded on each side with black-dyed maple and maple rings, with space between each, all set in from edge of soundhole
Pick guard: none
Finish: clear with craquelure
Linings: kerfed maple
Neck block: birch with slightly beveled corners
End block: birch with slightly beveled corners
Top braces: three spruce ladder braces with tapered ends, the one above soundhole wider than others, the one directly below soundhole angled such that the bass end is closer to soundhole
Back braces: four spruce with tapered ends, the lower two wider and lower in height than the upper two
DimensionsTotal guitar length: 937 mm (36-9/16″)
Back length: 467 mm (18-3/32″)
Upper bout width: 230 mm (8-25/32″)
Waist width: 182 mm (6-27/32″)
Lower bout width: 323 mm (13-5/16″)
Rib height (including edging) at heel: 83 mm (3-5/32″)
Rib height, at waist: 93 mm (3-9/16″)
Rib height, at end block: 104 mm (3-15/16″)
Head length: 159 mm (6-5/16″)
Head width, top: 72 mm (2-25/32″)
Head width, bottom: 53 mm (2-5/32″)
Neck length (nut to ribs): 308 mm (12-1/8″)
Neck width, nut: 46 mm (1-27/32″)
Neck width, heel: 57 mm (2-1/4″)
Soundhole diameter: 85 mm (3-11/32″)
Vibrating string length (nut to bridge edge): 618 mm (24-5/16″)
Credit LinePaul and Jean Christian Collection
Object number11657
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