Lyon and Healy A # 31

**Django Fret** · Feb-24-2010, 7:42am

Currently on eB@y with no reserve:

Vintage Lyon and Healy A Professional Mandolin

Serial number 31 with original case in overall good shape, but missing part of the scroll and a couple of "separations". It should be interesting to see what it goes for. NFI.

**Jim Garber** · Feb-24-2010, 2:45pm

It was one there last week with around $4500 as the starting price IIRC. That should sound nice and it is the earlier and longer scale model.

Ironically, the madness of auctions will prob bring the price up or close to the original asking. My humble prediction.

**mrmando** · Feb-24-2010, 6:18pm

It came out of an estate sale on the East Coast a couple of months ago. (I was a phone bidder but bowed out.) Not sure what the final price was. The folks who bought it have been trying to dump it on eBay at around $4K ever since.

A good violin shop can make a new ear for the scroll and match the finish. Probably $200-300, I would guess. I knocked a corner off my fiddle at a gig in Palo Alto; the repair shop did a very nice job matching the grain with a replacement. You wouldn't have known anything had happened there.

**Geoff Barber** · Mar-14-2010, 5:57am

I had a good look at the photos and was suspicious that it had been dropped at some stage with the scroll ear missing and what looks like stress cracks where the neck joins the body. Might be wrong but it is unusual IMO to see those cracks - they were very strongly made.

Originally Posted by mrmando

It came out of an estate sale on the East Coast a couple of months ago. (I was a phone bidder but bowed out.) Not sure what the final price was. The folks who bought it have been trying to dump it on eBay at around $4K ever since.

A good violin shop can make a new ear for the scroll and match the finish. Probably $200-300, I would guess. I knocked a corner off my fiddle at a gig in Palo Alto; the repair shop did a very nice job matching the grain with a replacement. You wouldn't have known anything had happened there.