Hi Dave - Style E was made between 1922 and 1925, yours likely dating to very late 1924 or early 1925. Style A was the most expensive model at the time, G the cheapest - you get the idea.
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Hi Dave - Style E was made between 1922 and 1925, yours likely dating to very late 1924 or early 1925. Style A was the most expensive model at the time, G the cheapest - you get the idea.
Correct Martin, and thanks - the L&H/Washburn carved top mandolin serial number "system" (...) is explained here:
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Some more trivia: re the 153 and 199 number stamps - my instrument list has no model listed with a handwritten label number in the 126-250 range, and I always wondered about the reason of this...
Wow - this just may represent the last piece of the puzzle of the Style A-C serial numbers. As I noted earlier, L&H initially separately numbered each Style (A, B, C, mandolas and mandocellos,...
A BIG ballpark guess: about 80-90 mandocellos, and around 90-100 mandolas were made between 1917 and 1928.
This estimate is only based on 286 carved top instruments I have listed to date (together...
Hi, a note on the serial numbering system of the L&H/Washburn carved top models (I posted this information here before, so nothing new).
At the time I did the WB book I had a number of Styles A-C...
Thanks - that means a lot to me. Nestari huh? Well, he is not on the L&H workers list either. ;)
Zorzi is Zelig.
Thanks much Mike and Mick - I now see that the author of the Guitarmaker article has earlier posted in this thread. Maybe he can chime in on the above findings.
My apologies in advance for what is going to be a lengthy post, the purpose of which is to end the 'Zorzi myth'.
As I explained years ago in another thread, I have serious doubts about this man’s...
The earliest Styles A-C (with the lowest serial numbers) did all conform to the 1914 patent filing design shape, including the pickguard.
I have file photos of a Style C #11, and a Style B #11...
Hi Jim - good question. First Washburn labels that I have listed:
Style B #1393 - discontinued shortly thereafter (1486 is highest recorded number for a B)
Style C #1456
Style A #1650
This...
Congrats with the instrument - unless someone else has other data, #2356 is the highest serial number I have seen on Styles A before these were renamed to Style 5283 in 1925. Assuming this did not...
That is #682 - your photo shows this, and corresponds with a picture I had saved earlier of this one.
Hi, Hubert here. The p. 157 description states Style E as having a pear shaped body (without the body points). In the footnote it is explained that all actual Styles E that I came upon had the pear...
American Conservatory was also a registered trademark held by Lyon & Healy for classes of stringed instruments (registrations filed/granted (at least) in 1906 and 1927.
It's now apparently a...
That looks like a Style 6, with the tiny heel? Those have great playing necks, better than the later (post 1889) sharp V ones IMO.
Why replace that neck and end up with a mongrel - when a piece...
I saw that Washburn mandolin in the Oak Park house and studio, too - a pedestrian Style 215 if I recall correctly.
When I asked the staff about it, they said they were not sure that FLW had ever...
Agree Mick - in hindsight I should have not made the Larson attribution to the Leland line without having had more definite proof I guess.
Umm - who made this one?
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No Martin. I never could figure that out. I think I read somewhere that the 'Professionals' indicated 27-fret Style A's, but the ones I have seen all have 24 frets and do not seem to differ in any...
Yes, it came out in 2008 - but no trace of Zorzi in there.
Some of these can be found on the forum if you do a search on Mr Zelig....oops Zorzi.
As far as I have been able to find out, the Zorzi etc. stuff is complete (and possibly intentional) BS (originally not by Mr Wright, who apparently copied this 'info' provided by another person...
L&H claimed that they were the first US manufacturer of mandolins. I do not know if that claim is accurate, but L&H's own factory did not start its operations until around 1883/4. The first Washburn...
I think I know a little bit more now about this than in 2008..
There are (at least) three labels used on the style a-c mandos. These labels are also described in the Washburn book.
Label #1...
Agreed - that is an American Conservatory mando made by L&H. Apparently the paper label fell out. The A9277 serial number puts it around 1910-11.
Here's one for sale with the same pickguard...