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I see that mandolin style as 1920s-1930s German cottage industry, however, only god knows who made it, if that would matter at all in this case, which I do not think it should. The tuning machines...

Well played, Victor......and a nice "O sole mio" arrangement too. To my impaired sense of hearing the Vinaccia sounds the nicest, although the other two are not chopped liver either.

Thank you Viktor, your ear is probably better than mine because I have been unable to tell those two string types apart. Tavy uses the Martin set too, and all mandolins I got from him had those...

Nice and very unique, perhaps one-off (custom) job for someone who liked abalone ornaments/parts as well as stained spruce tops. Unfortunately, the whole instrument looks over-sprayed to me, and not...

I knew that was not an ordinary mandolin.:confused:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KExQu-4wi9A

Bravo cumpa, stu strumentu si chiama "gusle", and it is used mainly for performance of Balkan blue grass music, such as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YmEMKiGZhk

https://www.ebay.it/itm/Mandolino/124106232348?hash=item1ce54ed21c:g:v-YAAOSw~15eVj8r

Over the years on eBay we all have seen a number of diverse string/plucked musical instruments being...

No. Armadillo mandriola with stiff Preston tuners is the answer.:mandosmiley:

Here's a contemporary BB mandolin on eBay It. marketed by Musikalia (Palermo, Italy) as model "Vinaccia". ...

"Embergher" in this eBay UK listing's title triggered my mandolin scouting network. ...

Those were the days of certain innocence, when the carnage of WWI was still years in the future, and bowl back mandolins were selling briskly in the States by the flourishing Lyon and Healy Co.
(The...

I have a bit of a rustproofing spray left over after treating my truck undercarriage with it this fall. Very tempting to use it on one of the mandolins I am in the process of sprucing up for sale on...

Often times those of us who dabble in old mandolin restoration have to know when to pull back with our instrument surface finishing efforts, otherwise the end result might appear overdone.....like...

Martin, I see you are using good info sources skillfully.
I have been tempted to get the Sparks book, but its price is kind of steep.

I have often wondered why the De Meglio mandolins became such...

Alas, accidents happen even to nice mandolins like that one.

Let us assume that I'd have to fork out $650 to win the auction and get the mandolin shipped to me.
With Ontario sales tax that comes...

See this link on Eileen Pakenham.

http://www.banjomandolinguitar.org/pakenham.htm

That is really an exceptionally well preserved mandolin, and although not a higher grade model, Martin used to build them all very nicely with fine tonal properties.
Should one decide to go for that...

Cпасибо Виктор.:) Indeed, the feet of those metal bridges would dig into the top softwood quickly and in the most ruinous manner.