Information about this instrument please

[Arthurbmello]

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Hi, please.
Can anyone give some information about this mandolin
I won this from italy
Thank you so much

[Jim Garber]

I can't read the top of the stamp but it was made in Catania, Sicily, a large instrument-manufacturing area. Most likely from the earlier part of the last century. I also see a blue sticker that says the same thing. A lot of good my info does, right? :)

Can you post a closeup of the stamp and any other photos: ones of the back end headstock would be helpful.

[Arthurbmello]

Hi man

Thank you for that

And these are the only pictures which i have at this moment because i even not saw the gift :)

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[brunello97]

Hard to tell from the picture. I pulled it into Photoshop to zoom in, but that didn't help a whole lot. Maybe you could post a better/closer photo of the stamp?

In reviewing my files, it looks like it could be a poor impression of the Puglisi stamp. Just a guess, however.....

Mick

[Arthurbmello]

Hey man
I took more photos

Is posible to tell more about it?

Thanks a lot
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[Jim Garber]

Well, at least I figured out the maker: Francesco Musumeci. Here is another fancier one on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Most-beautiful-old-Italian-mandolin-w-Romulus-Remus-inlay-Musuneci-Catania-/130941134471).

There is a better or different stamp on that one.

Short discussion on this mandolin starting here (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?2591-Bowlbacks-of-Note&p=1175988&viewfull=1#post1175988).