This is a better example! A Regal "reverse scroll" mandolin.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1920S-REGAL...QAAOSwnLhfjKWT
Yes, very common budget guitar as NickR notes made by Regal and sold under a bunch of labels or no label at all. Here is the design patent by Frank Kordick in 1914.
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Known to some as a 'Smurf hat' I believe
Mandolins: Bandolim by Antonio Pereira Cabral
German flatback mandola by unknown maker converted from a descant Waldzither
If Bill Monroe had seen a reverse scroll Regal in that barbershop window, we would be idolizing them, and making fun of an F5 headstock looking like the silhouette of a big nosed guy with a cowlick.
Jim, I like the "crown" tailpiece in that patent application. I wonder if once they were manufactured if they ever sported such a tailpiece? More likely, something very cheap like in the original photo although the more expensive versions did have the cloud type!
When Frank Kordick patented the reverse scroll design that tailpiece was common on some L&H mandolins.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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