Old phoenix type mandolin. what is it?

[Disturber]

HI,
I'm a newbie here on the board.

I bought this Mandolin in June this year at a country
auction in Sweden. It's old and it needed a refret.
Now it plays great and sounds even better.

I have no clue when or where it was made. The shape is similar to the Phoenix Mandolins. What is this shape called?

Could anyone estimate the value of my instrument, and perhaps where and when it was made?

The top is made of sprouce. The fretboard seems to be ebony and the body and neck seems to be made of maple. It also has
a wooden saddle, not bone, perhaps also made from ebony.

It has a beautiful neck carve. The neck joint is very nicely sculptured, as well as the head.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m214/disturber/Hamer/Mandolin.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m214/disturber/Hamer/Mandolinhuvud.jpg

[Lane Pryce]

I have never seen a mandolin like yours---very cool. Lp

[Jim MacDaniel]

What a great find -- congrats!

(BTW, that style is often called a two-point.)

[Disturber]

Thanks for the kind words.
It's a lovely instrument.
I would love to find out exactly how
old she is.



Sorry for the double post. I also
posted this in the "Looking for information about mandolins
section."[I]

[Jim Garber]

It is a Levin Aristokrat. I posted more about it on the other thread.

Jim

[Disturber]

Pic of the backside:

[BobLeeSwagger]

Contact the guys at Vintage Guitars in Stockholm, they'd probably be able to help. It looks to me like an old Levin, but I could be wrong. Vintage Guitars (http://www.vintage-guitars.se)

[Jim Garber]

Please refer to the other thread (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=13;t=38564;). I made that id already and referred to the Aristokrat model on that Swedish site.

Jim