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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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No idea but, if you look carefully at the second photo’, the headstock does have a badge which says “Lithuania”.
Wow, good catch! I missed that.
Thanks.
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Sobell Cittern, Sobell Bouzouki, Guild OM-150ce, Epiphone Masterbuilt DR-500cme
72 Guild D50, Guild 212 string, Guild F50, Blueridge BR163 Deering Tenor Banjo
numerous sets of bagpipes- most for sale, email me.
"When you have the music, you have the friend for life"
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Lyon & Healy • Wood • Thormahlen • Andersen • Bacorn • Yanuziello • Fender • National • Gibson • Franke • Fuchs • Aceto • Three Hungry Pit Bulls
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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