50 plus years old no name Mandolin can anyone help identify?
Received this Mandolin as a gift from a family member who says they received it as a gift over fifty years ago. They said put it a closet and that's when its been all this time. Could not find any markings or any identifying marks. Came with the original case.
Re: 50 plus years old no name Mandolin can anyone help identify?
That was made by the Regal Company of Chicago probably in the 1930s or 1940s. It is a budget mandolin but these sometimes sounds quite nice if set up well. I love the "upgrade" to mother-of-toilet-seat fretboard and headstock overlay.
Jim
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Re: 50 plus years old no name Mandolin can anyone help identify?
Ah, so many discussions. I thought at some point this had been positively ID'd from a catalog page.
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...ando-rare-body
I'm actually torn on these. That tailpiece was common on Regal instruments. That marquetry binding was common on Harmony instruments. The entire package looks a whole lot like a Stromberg-Voisenet instrument. I thought there was a catalog page on these that had popped up but I can't find it.
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Re: 50 plus years old no name Mandolin can anyone help identify?
If nothing else some of this design was labelled Supertone, in which case would have been sold by Sears. Since Sears Roebuck owned Harmony that maker would be likely. I see that headstock made by Regal. I have to dig out my Regal book and see if there are any of those shown there.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Re: 50 plus years old no name Mandolin can anyone help identify?
This design was built by Harmony.
www.OldFrets.com: the obscure side of vintage instruments.
Re: 50 plus years old no name Mandolin can anyone help identify?
A very nice gift. At any rate, a beautiful closet queen.
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