I am new to the forum. I am a long time guitar player and purchased a Kay Mandolin at a garage sale this past weekend for $40. Its in very good shape and appears to sound pretty good. I am trying to find information and the value for it. Inside the lower body f-hole there is a stamping that has "N-5" which I believe might be the model. I spent a lot of time on the web searching and came up empty for this particular model. The closest I came was Kay model K495 on the reverb.com site. It looks very similar to mine.
I also read a couple of posts here including the "Kay mandolin - value and more important sound" post which was informative. It appears that these type of mandolins were sold under a lot of different names by various companies.
Any info would be appreciated. I attached a picture.
Thanks in advance. I look forward to learning the instrument.
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