1924 B&D Super 5-String Banjo

A spectacularly clean, extremely rare five-string banjo produced after David Day joined with Fred Bacon in 1922 to form the Bacon & Day Banjo Co.
As always, B&D instruments contained superbly delicate adornments in terms of wood selection and complicated inlays on the peg head as well as the fingerboard.
This exquisite example left Groton. Ct. as an original five string, with all the hardware and the original neck. One quite often finds the Super model in a tenor banjo for which a five-string neck has been made later in life. Not so here. The peg head is decorated with the B&D logo surrounded by intricate vine inlays in mother-of-pearl.
Continuing down the fret-board, the eye encounters multiple inlay patterns of slotted diamonds and squares as well as the perennial fern Athyrium filix-femina inlaid with mother of pearl in the ebony fret board that is single-bound in ivoroid.
The clip on resonator is maple which matches the neck, and is super-clean as is the rest of the instrument. The heal cap features an inlaid multi-leafed bush.
As mentioned previously, this instrument is extremely clean, all original, with minimal fret wear and just hints at being previously owned. This is a terrific example of what some would call museum quality condition.

$4500 with high quality hard case included.

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