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    Any ideas on age or value? A friend has it.
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    It looks a bit like one of the old English ones, but i've never seen anything approaching that art deco headstock. Wild.
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    Default Re: Any Ideas of Make or value?

    No idea but, if you look carefully at the second photo’, the headstock does have a badge which says “Lithuania”.

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    Wow, good catch! I missed that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ray(T) View Post
    No idea but, if you look carefully at the second photo’, the headstock does have a badge which says “Lithuania”.
    Eh? Looks to me like it says "A. Dziminsky."
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrmando View Post
    Eh? Looks to me like it says "A. Dziminsky."
    There is a little badge in the lower right corner of the pic. I think that is what Ray is talking about
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    Ah, so there is.

    Well, that is odd. Obviously it was made for export or it wouldn't be labeled in the Roman alphabet. Possibly pre-1940, then? (That's the year the Soviet Union annexed the Baltic states.) I guess if Gibson was going all-out with mother-of-toilet-seat decorations on the Century of Progress mandolin in 1934, there's no reason someone in Lithuania couldn't do the same to a mandolin banjo in the same decade.
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    Wowser! That's some headstock scroll!

    Value -- that's a puzzle. Ornate -- what's the actual construction like? Assume it's playable; how's it sound?

    Mandolin-banjos don't command high prices, other than higher-end models built by well-known US firms like Gibson, Paramount, Orpheum, B & D etc. Putting a fancy Lithuanian model on the market would be a search for a very specific collector who'd like this rare bird.

    Maybe a few hundred dollars, <$500 for sure. The rarity and rococo decoration -- love that scroll! -- may give it some appeal. In a narrow niche market.
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