Iucci mandolin on eBay

[MikeEdgerton]

There is an interesting Iucci bowlback on eBay. NFI

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Michael-M-Iu...item1c59166a64

For posterity:

[ollaimh]

nice looking wood, strange sound hole

[goaty76]

Do you think that label was influenced at all from Gibson's original lyre label?


Phil

[MikeEdgerton]

I doubt it. Bruno was using a similar logo before Gibson. I'm sure others were as well. GIbson didn't have a lock on the lyre.

[goaty76]

But a lyre with the face of the maker in the center of it? It seems awfully close.

Phil

[MikeEdgerton]

It seems he was using a real lyre as his headstock inlay as well. Orville is actually in front of one of his mandolins. Who knows.

Interestingly we have another example of the Iucci with the same swan inlay here in this old thread.

[brunello97]

It seems he was using a real lyre as his headstock inlay as well. Orville is actually in front of one of his mandolins. Who knows.

Interestingly we have another example of the Iucci with the same swan inlay here in this old thread.

Looks like Iucci is behind the lyre strings.

Now I hold him prisoner in a Washburn jail... bang on the strings just to drive him crazy.



Mick

[BlueMountain]

Thanks for posting the link to my old photos of the Iucci mandola, Mike. Interesting similarities. I ended up selling the mandola to a descendant of Iucci who lived in New England, essentially at cost. Daniel Iucci. He was collecting as many Iucci instruments as he could.

[MikeEdgerton]

Somebody won that auction, maybe it was him.