Neapolitan mandolin
Maker
Lyon & Healy
Date1898 ca.
Place MadeChicago, Illinois, United States, North America
ModelNew Washburn, Style 1125
Serial No.58689
SignedTHE / NEW / WASHBURN / LATEST MODELMarkingsIn circle around signature: HIGHEST AWARD AT WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO 1893 / GOLD MEDAL AND DIPLOMA OF HONOR, ANTWERP, 1893
Engraved on tailpiece: From Father to his daughter Miss B. Ben Hogan, Aug. 14, 1899.
DescriptionTop: spruce
Sides: ribs or rosewood
Neck: Bird’s eye maple
Peghead: bird’s eye maple
Frets: nickel silver
Tailpiece: metal, gold plated
Button- none
Fingerboard: mother-of-pearl veneer
Bridge: rosewood
Saddle: mother-of-pearl
Nut: mother-of-pearl
Tuning machines: metal, gold plated
DimensionsTotal instr. Length: 59 cm (23 7/32”)
Fingerboard length: 21.7 cm (8 17/32”)
Nut to bridge: 32.8 cm (12 29/32”)
Nut to neck and body joint: 14.3 cm (5 5/8”)
Belly width/ diameter: 19 cm (7 15/32”)
Fingerboard width at nut: 2.5 cm (31/32”)
Fingerboard width at body joint: 3.5 cm (1 3/8”)
Body depth: 14.5 cm (5 23/32”)
Published References“Gallery I Dedicated October 9,” Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2, (January, 1982), p. 4
AMIS Newsletter, February, 1986, p. 16
Joseph R. Johnson, “The Mandolin Orchestra in America,” The Bid Red Book of
American Lutherie, Vol. II, 1988-1990, pp. 262, 267.
Credit LineGift of Joseph Wilbur Gullion, 1974
Object number00410
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