Perhaps something showing a large number of in process instruments in a identifiable photo taken while the instruments in question were being manufactured, not someone trying to remember where a factory was that they bought in the late 50's years after production ceased. Too many things can happen. In that same time period Favilla moved out of NY to Long Island. Who bought their factory? I haven't got a clue. Why would Sorkin sell the brand name to anyone if they were still in business? They bought the rest of the brand names and started putting them on anything they wanted to. Did they buy the brand name? I'm sure. Did it come from Homenick? I question that, I would think it came with the rest of the Sorkin brand names. Were mandolins manufactured in that building? Possibly but that doesn't mean they were manufactured by Homenick, it means Homenick may have owned a building. This brings up more questions than it answers. It's not cut a dried unfortunately. I would love to know the answer of who built the Strad-O-Lins but this doesn't show me anything. There were obvioulsy multiple manufacturers but I am assuming that the original Strad-O-Lins if opened up have that same circular clamp marking on the tail block and the other two identifiable but unknown makers won't have the same mark.
By the way, if you were a premier manufacturer of a product would you have let this out of your factory?
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