I doubt it - because they have different style soundhole rings: Known examples with FON 11991 have two thin wooden soundhole rings, while #74795 has the wide ivoroid soundhole ring. From what I have...
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I doubt it - because they have different style soundhole rings: Known examples with FON 11991 have two thin wooden soundhole rings, while #74795 has the wide ivoroid soundhole ring. From what I have...
Brian - wonderful looking mandolin! Question: What is the FON of your #74795? is it readable? (or did I miss it?)
Felix
This is an Epiphone Rivoli mandolin from 1943-44. The opaque sunburst and octagonal thumbwheels are typical wartime features.
Felix
Joe - thanks. Have you also got an estimate for the A-2z model?
Felix
What the data in my A2-z SN/FON table shows: While some items with FON 11919 (for example) got a serial number in the 740xx range, others with the same FON received a serial number in a 776xx or...
I don't believe all those A2-z were completed in 1923. I think what we see after serial number 75xxx is many parts/unfinished instruments stamped with an earlier FON being assembled/finished later...
I updated my table about A2-z models - now including also example without known FON. See attachment. (The approx S/N year is according to Spann).
This table seems to confirm that:
- A finished...
Regarding A2z models: I once created a chart of known examples with serial number and FON - from the Mandolin Archive and other sources - see attached screenshot. The list is ordered by ascending...
A few years ago I compiled a list of A2Z models with known FONs and serial number - see attached image. I also compared soundhole ring and tuner styles.
As you can see, the two number systems are...
Nice! Looking at my Epiphone instrument registry data, serial number 52176 is part of the last batch of wartime Strand mandolins - note the crude octagonal bridge thumbwheels, obviously a product of...
The A-50 in the 1937 Gibson catalog Y with the new wide body is pictured with these very fretboard and headstock inlays.
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The label "MADE IN U.S.A / BY GIBSON, INC. / KALAMAZOO, MICH."...
Nice! Is there a stamped FON visible on the neck block?
Felix
John - the rest of the catalog page is cut off. It reads: "Prices subject to change without notice".
Felix
That's what Epiphone recommended in their 1934 catalog: DuPont Duco No.7 !
Felix
150849
150848
150850
Already sold.
One you don't see every day - 1935 Epiphone Strand for sale (no affiliation):...
I am not a dealer, just researching old Epiphone instruments and maintaining a database about these. My general impression regarding market value of a 1930s Epiphone Rivoli mandolin: Pretty rare,...
The photos are fine - I was talking about that detail of the white binding that follows the edge of the body and then angles off towards the fretboard - see arrow in attached picture. Maybe a...
MissMatt - nice Epiphone Rivoli mandolin from c. 1936 as you figured out correctly! Not too many of these were made so it's always great to see an actual example. I don't think I have seen a Rivoli...
Correct!
Felix
Very nice - thanks for posting! This is indeed an early one - the f-holes are still positioned "high" on the body as with all early Epiphone electrics (position moved level with the bridge around...
Jim - Fisch/Fred state that the earliest Rivoli mandos (1932) were laminated walnut, and that by 1939 the back had changed to carved walnut. The change may possibly have happened a bit earlier than...
I think both: Epiphone generally was a much smaller operation than Gibson or Martin; and they launched their Masterbilt mandolins in the early 1930s when the mandolin boom was well over. In the...
Bill - thanks for the additional photos. Very nice engraved Waverly tuners.
Regarding your earlier question in your other thread: (1) are there many of these out there?
I think not too many, my...
Steve - Epiphone first promoted the "E under the lid" cases in the 1939 catalog: http://wiedler.ch/nyepireg/docs/1939_cat.pdf (see p.43). The Dutch Archtop Guitar Museum lists examples that came with...