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    Worlds ok-ist mando playr Zach Wilson's Avatar
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    Default Unknown vintage mandolin

    https://m.ebay.com/itm/vintage-8-str...UAAOSwY~1aN-YY

    Does anyone here have any ideas on what this could be?

    I like the look of it.

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    Default Re: Unknown vintage mandolin

    Made in Chicago at the Kay factory.
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    Default Re: Unknown vintage mandolin

    Current bid $49.
    That is enough for it in my opinion.

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    Default Re: Unknown vintage mandolin

    You want a picture of the neck joint from the side. It looks like it hasn't been played. Many times they went under a bed because they couldn't be played as the neck joint had come loose and Martin is correct, it is a Kay.
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    Right on! Thanks guys.

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    I had one like it many years ago and sure enough the neck pulled loose, cost more to have it fixed than what it was worth...So it went into the wood pile.....

    Willie

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