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That looks to me -- with the matching pickguard and tailpiece cover, and with the figure below the name -- earlier than the 50s. Can't say for sure about laminate or not, as you find both, but I'd...

Headstock, neck join, f holes = definitely a Stradolin. I've seen many Favilla-labelled mandos that were obviously Strads, from lower tier instruments to quite fancy ones.

Stromberg-Voisinet, the company that became Kay, early 30s.

No date on that one, which leads me to believe it's a bit later, 40s perhaps.

I've seen several Favillas that were distinctly Stradolins (or produced by same maker), and in fact have an Orpheum-badged Stradolin that's a twin of this one -- finish, pickguard, tailpiece cover...

Yes, it's a Stradolin. The pickguard and cover are original.

I wish something like this were available; I'd buy it. Would love to have several mandolins easily accessible.

It's a Stromberg-Voisinet, which became Kay, from probably the late 30s, early 40s.

Possibly Caleb Klauder.

S.S. Stewart was latterly one of the many imprints for Harmony-made instruments; you see the archtop guitars fairly often.

Headstock, marker at 10th fret and general shape do look like Stradolin. Clincher would be a back view with neck-body join.

Progressive Musical Instrument Company, not a builder but a distributor of instruments by others, many of them made by Regal, Chicago-based I think, 1920s-1950s or so, seem most often to see...

That's a typical Kay headstock from the late Thirties, 1938 or thereabouts.

It's a Stromberg-Voisinet, from the company that became Kay, most likely from the Thirties.

Model numbers are problematic, but that headstock configuration generally dates from the early 60s.

It could easily be a Stella. The MOP and pickguard are consonant, and upper-level Stellas (Sovereigns, e.g.) had a headstock quite like that one.

Your mandolin was made by Stromberg-Voisinet, which became Kay sometime around 1930. The distinctive headstock suggests that this one's from about that time, 1930-33. Stromberg-Voisinet and Kay...

For some time now I've been looking for a double stand to hold mandolin and fiddle; it seems odd that no one makes one, since so many of us play both. In my case, I need small -- my band goes...

Brilliantly thought-out and presented. Thank you for pointing us to this, David.

One of the Kay admirers here can probably give you a ballpark date, but we'd need photos of the entire instrument, and especially the headstock.

Yep. That inept interviewer has kept me from watching any of these Mel Bay interviews. Sad.

You may want to go to ResoNation, The Steel Guitar Forum, and Reso Hangout. Great stuff on all.

I've thought it odd that there's not a readily available double stand -- light, foldable, easy to carry -- for mandolin and fiddle, considering how many double on the two.

If you look at photos of old string bands, you see a lot of cellos, which were often used to play the bass part and to provide a continuo. There were loads of stringed instruments around, relics of...

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