Re: Please help identifing this mandolin - Thanks Antonio
Certainly is a pretty mandolin and to my eye the bling is well done without overwhelming the instrument.
I would recommend going slow on the Weymann attribution simply on the type and location of the tuners. These were not the sole propriety of Weymann--Martin used these as well on their short lived G series, for instance, though this is by no means a Martin.
The shape of the bowl does not look like Weymann at all and the headstock shape is very much like that used by Lyon and Healy on their Washburns and other bowlbacks.
I realize that that headstock shape was used by others, so it is equally projective to base an attribution soley on that. Still, I'd be as inclined to think fancy L+H as I would anyone else at this point.
Mick
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