Mandolin
Date1940-1950 ca.
Place MadeLincoln, Minnesota, United States, North America
ModelFlat top
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionStringing: eight strings – treble strings are steel wire, bass strings are steel-wound
Soundboard: one-piece, red-painted pine plywood
Back: one-piece, red-painted pine plywood
Ribs: one-piece, red-painted zinc-plated steel
Head: red-painted pine; integral with neck
Neck: red-painted pine; integral with head
Heel cap: none
Binding: edges of soundboard and back painted white
Fretboard: black-painted pine; 11 copper bar frets; fretboard painted white behind 4th, 7th, 9th, and 11th frets
Nut: black-painted hardwood
Bridge: black-painted hardwood; nickel-plated copper wire saddle
Tailpiece: white-painted zinc-plated steel
Tuners: two sets of worm-gear tuners with brass plates, brass rollers, and black-celluloid heads
Endpin: none
Rosette: none – two S-shaped f-holes in soundboard
Pick guard: black-painted zinc-plated steel
Varnish: paint
Linings: small pine blocks
Neck block: pine
End block: pine
Top bracing: single pine longitudinal brace
Back bracing: none
Grafts: none
Dimensionstotal instrument length: 59.5 cm (23 11/32”)
fingerboard length: 22.7 cm (8 15/16”)
nut to bridge: 34.7 cm (13 21/32”)
nut to neck and body joint: 14.5 cm (5 11/16”)
belly width/diameter: 28 cm (11 1/32”)
fingerboard width at nut: 4.2 cm (1 21/32”)
fingerboard width at body joint: 5.0 cm (1 31/32”)
body depth at neck: 6.6 cm (2 19/32”)
body depth at bottom: 9.5 cm (3 23/32”)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson, "Gallery I Nears Completion – Displays American Musical Instruments," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 2, No. 1 (April 1975), p. 2.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01135
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1940 -1950 ca.
