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For sure this latest owner was a collector of many things. They are have 3 auctions of this collector. The auctioneer told me that she sold it to this guy a few years ago and that it was in an...

Thank you, I HAD hoped I bought something of great value - It seems that I was wrong. Now I own an expensive instrument that I don't even know how to play. On the other hand, I have a lot of guitars...

It has not arrived just yet so I will have to see what is in the case, but thank you, good eye.

I'm thinking this could be the guy. Makes sense as it came from Oregon. Thank you so much for passing this along. Some seem to this this piece is not worth much but I think it is. I'd sure like to...

It's possible but this has spent time on the West coast but I'm certainly going to look in to it. Thanks so much for passing this on to me.

All righty then. I guess Ill just learn to play it put it with the rest of my guitars. I hope a mandolin will fit in with guitar and they won't get jealous!

Thanks for all of your help.

You your thinking that serial number 5 is worth like 3K?

They were no help

I believe that it spent most of its time on the West Coast. Northern Cal and Oregon. There is a music book by Hank Thomson and a Gigging Set book.

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The number is also on the neck plate. Not sure what or how they did things in their early years. I have heard that mandoline numbers don't follow the guitar serial numbers

Do you know if any of them played a '56' Fender Mandolin?

I have just purchased a 1956 Fender Mandolin in the Translucent White. The serial number is 00005 so yeah its an early one, maybe the earliest known to exist. I have questions that I'm hoping there...