Re: Snakehead H-2 mandola?
Would be a great find -- and I know you can't tell a whole lot from a single picture -- but size-wise, doesn't this look more like an A-2 than an H-2? Sorta going by the hand size of the person holding it...
Could the "A" in "A-2" be partially obscured/erased, making it look like an "H"? The Gibson factory batch records should tell us how many mandolas were built during the "snakehead" period.
Hope my skepticism's unfounded, as a snakehead H-2 would be a wonderful discovery.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
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