An attractive mandolin.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-8...IAAOSw3dRehKwm
Dealer sticker over the original one. Can one tell the maker? Both addresses visible on original sticker appear to be from Catania (checked via Google maps).
An attractive mandolin.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-8...IAAOSw3dRehKwm
Dealer sticker over the original one. Can one tell the maker? Both addresses visible on original sticker appear to be from Catania (checked via Google maps).
Hi, found the label on Google:
Made by Stefano Caponnetto
Eastman MD-315, Eastman MDO-305, Kentucky KM-150, Calace 1917, Gibson A ~ 1920, Johnson resonator mando
This maker used the NON PLUS ULTRA slogan. However, he may have gone out of business and somebody else grabbed it. My guess is that it is post war but the tuners look like 1930s German items- but left over from the wartime dislocation.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...tube-458075793
Edit- I should have refreshed the page as it has been found- Stefano Caponnetto above!
Nice catch, Victor... and good call, Cando. I have SC listed under the Via Petriera address in my files which was obscured by the other label.
Caponetto had a sense of brio in his work. Some other examples and a different label.
These two are flat backed.
Mick
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Very pretty mandolin, but I would get confused on that fingerboard.
A display piece if I've ever seen one! Interesting that it seems to be post-WWII; seems quite ornate for that period...?
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Thanks Cando, spot on!
I've put in a few bids on it.
Don't plan to go very deep with it but I've always enjoyed the exuberance of Catanese mandolins. I quite like the looks of this. SC seems to have pulled off the very sexy Embergherian recurve where the bowl meets the neck...and with what appears to be a slightly deeper bowl cross section--but that could just be the photo angle.
Doesn't appear to have copied the Roman cross sloped neck and bridge.
Or the .675" nut width.....
Mick
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Pearl work seems a bit amateurish to my eyes, even cartoony. Whoever did it was not the Consalvi of Catania.
I guess it fits in with the guitars by that shop at the Fetish Guitar site. I have in my files jpegs of a mandolin that goes very well with this guitar.
It might be a decent player though. The seller is about 1 hour from my house and I would venture a trip if these were not Covid-19 days. Oh well...
Here's another Caponnetto bowlback with a less encrusted fretboard.
Jim
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it says melon wood back. i do not think that is mellon wood(whatever that is) looks like rosewood. but it is way to cheesy for me, but i have never played a bowl back for very long. i toyed with a few but i sold them on.
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Caponetto didn't seem to leave much out. Or resist the temptation to put something in.
Anyone can make a "tasteful" mandolin with a bottle opener headstock, a goofball looking dragon and a clumsy trompe l'oeil scroll....
Jim, that bound top, cutaway two point guitar with rose window soundhole rosette is simply amazing.
If only Porter Waggoner or some of the Nudie-suited C+W guys had been hip to Caponetto.
We got a new CNC controlled embroidery machine in the shop back in the winter. Once the Quentin Quarantino finally ends I'm going to dive in.
Mick
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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
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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'05 Cuisinart Toaster
'93 Chuck Taylor lowtops
'12 Stetson Open Road
'06 Bialetti expresso maker
'14 Irish Linen Ramon Puig
Jim
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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
Here's another refreshingly simple piccolo mandolin by Stefano Caponnetto that I recently acquired. (I do have a fondness for piccolo mandolins--not those German pocket mandolins but true piccolos with the shorter scales). I posted here about this recent one on this thread: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/162465-New-Piccolo-and-My-Piccolo-Trio
Jim
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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
Nice find - looks in good condition.
Thats very KOOL!
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