12-string Neapolitan mandolin

Date1910-1920 ca.

Place MadeJersey City, New Jersey, United States, North America

ModelNeapolitan

Serial No.none

SignedInlaid in celluloid on pickguard: OS
Markingsnone
Description12 strings: 4 courses of 3
Soundboard: twopiece spruce: medium grain
Bowl: 17 rosewood staves, inner 15 ribs narrower, divided by maple stringing
Clasp: rosewood; festooned lower end
Head: Spanish cedar or mahogany veneered with rosewood on front face
Neck: Spanish cedar or mahogany; integral with head
Binding: alternating rosewood/ivoroid rectangles; trim on top comprised of twoply alternating dark hardwood/maple stripes on either side of two stripes of herringbone
Fingerboard: rosewood; 17 nickelsilver Tfrets; motherofpearl single dots inlaid behind 5th, 7th, 10th, and 12th frets
Nut: missing
Bridge: missing
Tuners: two sets of wormgear machine tuners with nickelplated steel plates, nickelplates steel rollers, and black plastic heads
Tailpiece: nickel-plated
Rosette: elliptical; ivoroid binding; trim comprised of light/dark hardwood herringbone surrounded on each side by 3ply stripes
Pick guard: imitation tortoiseshellcelluloid with decorative vine ivoroid inlay
Lacquer: slightly yellowed with craquelure
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number01316

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