5-string banjo
Trade Name
Concertone
(trade name of Montgomery Ward)
Distributor
Montgomery Ward & Company
(distributor)
Date1910-1930 ca.
Place MadeChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
ModelConcertone
Serial No.None
SignedStamped into dowel stick, in cursive: ConcertoneMarkingsStamped into tailpiece, in cursive: Slingerland
Handwritten in pencil on back of calf-skin head: Loren Rickabaugh / Le Mars / Iowa.
Handwritten in pencil on back of calf-skin head, opposite: Buffalo, / S. Dak.
DescriptionNeck: dark-brown-stained birch; 5th-string tuner
Peghead: integral with neck; dark-brown-stained birch
Fingerboard: integral with neck; black-painted face; 22 nickel-plated brass T-frets; mother-of-pearl single dots inlaid behind 5th, 7th, and 12th frets
Heel cap: none
Head: calf skin
Tone ring: none
Rim: dark-stained maple
Bracket hooks: 16 nickel-plated steel
Shoes: 16 nickel-plated brass
Tension hoop: nickel-plated brass
Dowel stick: dark-brown-stained birch
Resonator: none
Nut: dark hardwood
Tuners: 4 ebony pegs in peghead; 5th-string nickel-plated brass tension tuner with ivoroid head
Tailpiece: nickel-plated brass
Finish: dark-red-brown lacquer
DimensionsTotal instrument length: 891 mm (35-3/32”)
Vibrating string length – long strings: 667 mm (26-1/4”) [approx. – estimated from markings on calf-skin head where bridge would be]
Vibrating string length – 5th string: 503 mm (19-13/16”) [approx. – estimated from markings on calf-skin head where bridge would be]
Total fingerboard length: 493 mm (19-13/32”)
Fingerboard length from 5th-string nut: 329 mm (12-15/16”)
Fingerboard width at top nut: 30 mm (1-3/16”)
Fingerboard width at 5th-string nut: 38 mm (1-1/2”)
Fingerboard width at body: 45 mm (1-25/32”)
Head diameter: 272.5 mm (10-23/32”)
Resonator diameter: N/A
Rim depth: 62 mm (2-7/16”)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00609
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1930-1938 ca.