Mandolin

Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy)

Not on view

This beautiful mandolin is decorated with an engraved mother-of-pearl fingerboard, and mother-of-pearl bands edge the spruce top and sound hole. The mandolin has twenty frets, two of which extend over the sound hole. The back is made of fourty-four rosewood ribs separated by celluloid spacers.

Mandolin, Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy), Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, American

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Mandolin, Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy), Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, American
Mandolin, Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy), Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, American
Mandolin, Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy), Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, American
Mandolin, Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy), Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, American
Mandolin, Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy), Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, American

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