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Keith Miller
Aug-22-2006, 1:23pm
this is on the bay at the moment, I've never seen a headstock like that on a gibson, is it the real thing ?

danb
Aug-22-2006, 1:45pm
Real but altered by an amateur with a bandsaw it appears. That finish is also redone.

Eugene
Aug-22-2006, 9:45pm
Ouch! ...And, without knowing more or inspecting this thing, I'd be more likely to guess it as pre-1908. How was it dated to 1910?

jim simpson
Aug-22-2006, 10:26pm
It's too bad they couldn't have made the shape symetrical. I wonder what would be the best way to correct the head shape on this one? I would be tempted to make it a snakehead as it has had so much done to it already.

danb
Aug-23-2006, 1:36am
The inlay pattern matches one that I have a couple examples of around serial 52xx-55xx, probably ~1906



http://www.mandolinarchive.com/images/5562_a4_front.jpg

mrmando
Aug-25-2006, 6:44pm
Take a look at the many, many photos in the eBay ad (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170020161643). Someone apparently grafted a new piece of wood into the neck. Maybe the cut-down (and bound!) headstock is because there was some kind of damage.

Back wood looks very interesting, too.

Professor PT
Aug-25-2006, 11:54pm
Even if the mando is a mess, it still has the Handel tuners, and those go for quite a bit these days.

Jim Garber
Aug-26-2006, 7:55am
The seller is a reputable long-time dealer, House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Jim

Ray(T)
Aug-27-2006, 5:30am
Take a look at track one of the Grisman/Rice "Tone Poems" booklet. Apart from the fretboard inlay (and the shape of the head) its almost identical - an A4.