Certainly not like anything in the Bob Carlin’s book on Regal Musical Instruments, other than the aforementioned Gumby headstock. Maybe a homemade job?
That is a German "Wappen"-Style mandolin body.
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yeah, this is listed on Shopgoodwill.com as a Regal ... but it ain't one.
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Thanks, now that I know, it was easy to find - Pamela Wilson online museum has the same one or another of the run. No dimensions given at SGW, so maybe it’s a mandola or something. Regal’s design probably a bit later: this feature inspired them? Stranger things have happened.
Some collector will probably bid this one up out of my curiosity comfort zone, i.e. real cheap, so I’ll watch the auction.
is it not a Viennese Mandolinetto?
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