My name is David, I have a mandolin that I would like to have appraised. (If you need help with getting the pictures to me, let me know.) Q: I’ll be happy to post the pictures on the CMSA webpage for the membership to comment on and perhaps get some further information for you. A picture of the label inside the instrument is usually also helpful, except I understand the damage it has sustained. Particularly, try to get good pictures of the pegs and pegbox, the front, the ribs and the bridge. It might be easier to identify if you take some good pictures of it. I can’t identify the instrument from your description. There were many variations on the peghead and tuners, some due to the luthier’s familiarity with violin construction (like yours), some to vary the construction of the instrument sufficiently to allow it to be eligible for a unique patent number. There were also a number of instruments made in Italy during the same time period. There were a lot of American-made Neapolitan style (bowlback) instruments manufactured in the last 25 years of the 19th and the early years of the 20th century. Have you any info on the marketing of bowl-backed mandolins in America? I would appreciate any info on old bowl-backed mandolins. I remember it as being January of 1864/84. The actual date was written in ink on the label but has since faded- flooded(?) off. The building was replaced by the Marshall Field store after the Chicago fire of 1871. The mandolin was sold by a John Brandt who was a salesman from “Salesroom 21” at the Central Music Mall in Chicago (at the corner of State and Randolph) before 1900. The mandolin was given to me over 35 years ago by an old Italian lady, who said “Here, you’re a music teacher.” Right now it has cracks and is very fragile. I was able to play it until it was damaged in a flood some years back. There is inlaid mother of pearl around the sound hole, and tortoiseshell between the sound hole and the carved bridge. I have a rather unusual bowl-shaped mandolin.
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