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Cool label, Jim. I like the looks of this mandola. It has one of my favorite MOP rosette designs. Looks like a couple petals of la madre are missing, though.
Mick
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Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mandolin-...item339cebffa0
Interesting top design. Lazzaro. Looks mid-20c.
I see not just the typically split ribs, but an actual broken rib, and I would think the neck has to be at least worked on to be really stable and playable considering the overall condition.
The bridge is just in the wrong place, I think. You can see a mark where the bridge used to be - if I've looking at the right picture - further toward the break in the top nearer to the tailpiece.
The frets looked worn, maybe playable, but if you are going to all that trouble to fix it I'd refret it now.
Jim
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Yep, and that metal plate at the back of the neck. Not worth buying, but funny top design.
It now says "Best offer accepted". Did somebody here get it? If I'd seen it earlier, I might have made an offer -- a Calace mandola for less than 750 Euro is a good deal if the bowl damage isn't too severe (difficult to tell from the photos).
[Edit: Looking again, I think Jim and David may be right that there is rather more damage than just the bowl, and repairs may be open-ended.]
Martin
Sold for €600. I really have to replenish my instrument repair fund! Or quickly learn how to do this myself.
Jim
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One of my dream trips, Jim, is for you, Eug and me and Victor (or any combination thereof) to go visit Martin. We go up in his attic and record some tunes. We all lug back 2 or 3 great mandolins. When we are done drinking beer.
I've seen a lot of broken bowls, but that side-puncture wound in the Calace mandola is really a CSI oddity. How does something like that happen?
Mick
BTW, the Porta della Mandorla, in Firenze was cleaned and refurbished a few years back. One of the most lovely doors in the world, I think.
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Martin... I owe you a few beers or dinner, at least!!
BTW this is amazing or a scam... the pseudo Embergher No. 7 says it was bid on by 2 bidders for $13,000. Huh???
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Another 5 cents to previous Embergher in question discussion. Found this http://www.larkstreetmusic.com/images/*Embergher.jpg Seems to be another knock off.
A Giuseppe Puglisi bowlback from Bologna on the ebay.
I may be alone in enjoying these multi-bound tops out of Catania. The action looks a bit sketchioso for me on a bowl.
Very simple label compared to what we are used to seeing from them. I am guessing is an early mandolin from Puglisi (or perhaps the work of a son?)
Mick
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Lovely Puglisi. Giuseppe was making mandolins under his name from 1880 to 1906. After 1906 the family traded as G. Puglisi Reale i Figli.
This mandolin recently on ebay at $499 BIN, seller in Germany. I have a very similar mandolin including an almost identical Romulus and Remus panel with the same leaves except slightly more delicate. Different soundhole inlay. Similar metal tailpiece overlay. Same classical guitar style machine heads and inlaid edge banding. Veneer strips on the back extend all the way from the bowl to the headstock/nut. Mine has a label inside reading: Fabbrica Strumenti Musicali a Corda, Giuseppe Garcano, Catania, Via Nuovaluce 6. This suggests that Musumeci is likely the exporter or company selling the mandolin, rather than the luthier.
(refers to a post on p 242)
Jim
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ANTIQUE ALUMINIUM BOWL BACK 8 STRING MANDOLIN WITH LABEL http://r.ebay.com/QJ1YiE - they didn't have carbon fibre back then.
If it didn't work as a mandolin you could always fry your breakfast in it
Thanks, Derbex.... I was just about to link to this mandolin.
We've seen aluminum bowls before from the US (and maybe UK)--but this label: Joseph Ficarra and the Port Said location label are new to me, though I'm pretty sure we've seen the PS labeling come up. Maybe Haney will see this and weigh in.
Not the fanciest aluminium bowl but I find these fascinating. I know AL is a super abundant element but the material aluminum remains very un-earthly to me for some reasons. We work with it a lot but it retains its fascination.
Some photos of the bowlback--with very DeMeglioid top.
Note the muy cool one-piece zero fret / string spacer that we were recently talking about which was a feature on some Ceccherini mandolins (as well as others....)
Mick
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Depending on quite how old the mandoline is aluminium might have been quite a high grade material, I don't think production really ramped up until WW1.
I noticed the nut -it does look pretty identical to my Ceccherini. Tailpiece looks more like my deMeglio, which has a two piece brass nut/zero fret.
Maybe of German origin. Paulus in Markneukirchn were offering aluminium bodied mandolins around 1906 with a similar screw attachment of the neck. The only other Port Said music shop label I have seen is one on an old (originally) 12 string flatback I have. It is from G.De Liso in that city.
Alternatively someone had a DeMeglio with a smashed bowl and they found a local metal worker to make an aluminium body?
Cheers
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