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    Default Interesting K2 mandocello

    Curious instrument this ...

    Shape of the headstock and "The Gibson" inlay, along with the serial number of 7167, suggest a date of 1907.

    Yet it has a floating pickguard and a GUARANTEED label.

    Maybe a 1907 instrument that went back to Gibson for repairs in the mid-teens?

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibson-K-2-...sAAOSwVxdbmVpk
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    Perhaps. Everything about the body appears to suggest early to mid teens to me.

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    Maybe it's just a teens mandocello that somehow got the wrong serial number. I have seen that almost-straight-across headstock logo on instruments from other years, although 1907 is the most common.
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    Any chance that they had a stock of older neck/headstock bits they were using up, or just found one behind a bench and decided, "Why not use this here?"

    But, oh, that doesn't cover any serial number sequence question. It would have to be a more involved "just found this here" issue. Although rework might be involved, as mentioned above.
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    Don't look for too much order in the way Gibson conducted business in the old days. The bottom line is that it is indeed a K-2, and if it went back to factory to have a collapsed body replaced in 1914, it really doesn't have a great effect on the instrument's value.

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