Re: Butterfly bowl back ID?
Later vintage, perhaps a bit beyond your 1910. The tuners pretty much date it as later. Not a real expensive instrument based on the number of staves, the butterfly doesn't help much either. It looks like it's in pretty good shape. Probably one of the Chicago builders (such as Lyon and Healy or Harmony). Could have been sold in a catalog like Sears or through a teacher. Are there any numbers penciled on the brace behind the sound hole?
One of resident bowlheads may have a catalog page or other identifying factor to throw in to the mix.
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