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    Hi I was hoping someone could tell me a little about this mandolin...age etc..thank you!
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    SS Stewart was a premiere banjo manufacturer based in Philadelphia circa 1900. By the time your mandolin was made it had become a brand that was outsourcing most of their instruments to other builders. You have a 30's era mandolin that is branded SS Stewart but was most likely built by Harmony in Chicago. Are there any numbers stamped inside? You might need a flashlight to see them.
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    Looks like it says 1886 last number is hard to read
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    Are there any other numbers? By the way in 1915 the SS Stewart name was sold to the distributor Buegeleisen & Jacobson. B&J bought from most of the larger builders that built for the trade.
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    No other numbers that I can find

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    OK, no help there then.
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    The Pearloid headstock overlay makes me think late 1920's to mid 1930's. The "commas" at the end of the f-holes are characteristic of some Chicago builders, including Harmony, as Mike E states. Many of the larger Chicago builders manufactured mandolins for distributors like B & J, and labeled them with the distributors' brand names. You can find "S S Stewart," as well as "Fred Stewart" (son of S S) labels on instruments made by several US makers.
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