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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.
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Title: Mandolin
Maker:
Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy)
Date: ca. 1900
Geography: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell
Dimensions: Height: 24 in. (61 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1979
Object Number: 1979.444a, b
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