Lyre mandolin
Date1900 ca.
Place MadeNaples, Campania, Italy, Europe
Serial No.none
SignednoneMarkingsnoneDescriptionTop: two-piece spruce: medium grainBowl: rosewood; round shape with 42 staves divided by light hardwood strips
Sides: rosewood
Neck: rosewood
Head: rosewood veneered in ebony
Fingerboard: black-stained hardwood with decoratively cut mother-of-pearl inlays; 20 nickel-silver frets
Tuners: enclosed worm-gear tuners with decoratively engraved nickel-silver plate and bone heads
Tailpiece: decoratively engraved nickel-silver
Nut: nickel-silver
Pickguard: tortoiseshell with mother-of-pearl engraved cherub and vine inlay
Rosette: decoratively cut mother-of-pearl inlays set in imitation tortoiseshell mastic, surrounded with purfling
Binding: rosewood on top with trim comprised of decoratively cut mother-of-pearl inlays set in imitation tortoiseshell mastic surrounded by mastic
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number01487
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