Question: When is a Stradolin not a Stradolin

[your_diamond]

Answer: When it's this Stradolin
Stradolin Strad O Lin Mandolin Nice Condition Foil Label Stradolin 510 http://r.ebay.com/jECMvm

[Seter]

Looks like one of those newer Asian-made ones, here is a fancier looking one with the same logo: https://reverb.com/item/5724891-stra...an-strad-o-lin

I like my old tyme Strad-o-lin, lots of character.

[MikeEdgerton]

There's actually a comparison between these (the one on eBay) and the real Strad-O-Lins in the Strad-O-Lin social group. That on is one of these.

[MikeEdgerton]

The one on Reverb I have seen before but not with the Strad-O-Lin label. I think there are several of those in the worst scroll thread.

[allenhopkins]

The Strad-O-Lin trademark was acquired by the Peter Sorkin Music Co., and is now owned, apparently by Multivox (since 1982). You can find Strad-O-Lin brass instruments, banjos, amplifiers, and electric guitars, from a variety of domestic and foreign makers.

The mysterious Homenick/Favilla/who knows? mandolins of the earlier era have been succeeded by a bunch of "trade" level instruments of various types. Not the first time someone's expropriated a historic trademark; won't be the last...

[MikeEdgerton]

I think Sorkin owned that trademark from the getgo.