bowl back identification assistance

[Repurped]

Greetings,
I am new here and would appreciate any insight on identifying my bowl back mandolin. I bought on ebay and repaired the cracks and pieced it back together. I build guitars and wanted to rebuild one, since it looked so intriguing.
It has no label or identifying marks. The tuners are not original to this instrument.
Best Regards,
Terry

[Jim Garber]

This looks like a budget, generic bowlback. Usually, alternating a fewer ribs of two different woods indicate that. Plus the pickguard looks like it was just glued to the top (not inlaid) or even painted on and no bindings. No real giveaway clues as to maker but probably one of the thousands of similar ones cranked out by factories in major instrument-making areas like Chicago or greater New York. Sorry can't be more specific but that doesn't mean that you can't fix it up to play and learn some of the ways these mandolins were put together.

[allenhopkins]

The alternating maple/rosewood or maple/mahogany staves in bowls are most generally found in earlier (1900 or before) bowl-backs, though not exclusively.

Concur with Jim G's analysis; the bowl composed of a few broad staves, the lack of binding and ornamentation, and the low number of fingerboard inlays, are all characteristic of a student-grade mandolin. Doesn't mean it can't be made playable.

[Repurped]

Thank you Jim.

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Thank you Allen.