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    i have been looking but cant find one with all the same features
    somewhat of a heart shape on headstock is only mark i can find
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    Default Re: need help to identify

    That headstock shape was used by a few makers. This was an entry level bowlback based on the number of staves used to create the back. Probably Lyon and Healy in Chicago around 1900. The now gone heart might have been a private label or simply a sticker of some sort. L&H built for the trade. many of their instruments never had a label. How is the inside finished?
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    like canvas or some type of material glued inside

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    would inside finish tell more about a brand?

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    Yes, I was hoping one of the resident bowlback folks would be able to confirm a manufacturer based on the interior finish.
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    Yes, Chicago would be my kind of town. It is either L & H or Regal, I would think.

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    thanks
    i wanted to have some idea before i started restoring

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    early 1900s?

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    Turn of the century. Could be just before or just after. By 1896 it looks like the L&H branded Washburn's had gone to a different headstock shape but that doesn't mean they weren't using it on their other brand names. This isn't a Washburn. At some point they moved away from the covered tuners as well but the catalog pages shown in Hubert Pleijsier's Washburn Prewar Instrument Styles don't show the backs of the headstocks. That's a great book by the way.

    I was hoping Jim Garber would pop up a catalog page.

    I think it's too early to be a Chicago Regal and I don't think it's an Indianapolis Regal.
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