atetone
May-31-2004, 4:56pm
This one has me stumped. Hopefully one or more of you knowledgable members can throw some light on this for me.
My brother has located what the owner says is a 1932 Gibson
C-1 flatop oval hole mandolin, with mahogany back and sides, painted-on pickguard, clamshell tailpiece, bound top, unbound back, ebony fingerboard, silkscreened logo, with natural finish top.
The present owner has had it in the family for 40 years.
He says that a guy who "really knows about mandolins" had a bunch of old Gibson catalogues and showed him this mandolin in the catalogue and this is where he got the description.
Also supposedly the 1932 catalogue was the only one that this particular style of mando showed up in.
Does anyone have any idea what this is??
He is looking to sell it but it is a long way away and my brother doesn't know anything about even where to start as far as mandos go so any help that I can get in identifying it would be greatly appreciated.
Just to make it a bit harder, I do not have a picture or any way of getting one at the moment.
Oh,,, the only number in it is 129 in ink. Whatever that might refer to??
My brother has located what the owner says is a 1932 Gibson
C-1 flatop oval hole mandolin, with mahogany back and sides, painted-on pickguard, clamshell tailpiece, bound top, unbound back, ebony fingerboard, silkscreened logo, with natural finish top.
The present owner has had it in the family for 40 years.
He says that a guy who "really knows about mandolins" had a bunch of old Gibson catalogues and showed him this mandolin in the catalogue and this is where he got the description.
Also supposedly the 1932 catalogue was the only one that this particular style of mando showed up in.
Does anyone have any idea what this is??
He is looking to sell it but it is a long way away and my brother doesn't know anything about even where to start as far as mandos go so any help that I can get in identifying it would be greatly appreciated.
Just to make it a bit harder, I do not have a picture or any way of getting one at the moment.
Oh,,, the only number in it is 129 in ink. Whatever that might refer to??