Does anyone know?
Does anyone know?
I love these sleuthing exercises!
Based on the headstock binding, the trussrod cover and the dark tuner buttons an educated guess would be 1923-24. Assuming the tuners weren’t changed I don’t believe the dark buttons were used after this period.
Mark
Mark Lynch
Yep, what Mark said.
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Hendrik
Also, this has cog under worm tuners. They changed to cog over worm in 24 sometime, so 24 at the latest.
Thanks for posting the You Tube video of Levon Helm. What a fine musician and human being! Always to be remembered.
I've seen that clip before. It shows Levon at his most charming, all shy and self-effacing. He really undersells the story about his truck fire, which is too bad - must have been a harrowing experience. Also, it's bewildering that Dave never mentions or even acknowledges the existence of the mandolin, right in front of his nose for eight minutes of screen time, likely twice as much in real time. Baffling. Doesn't do us much good here, as far as answering the question goes. Just a simple, "Whatcha got there?" would have been nice.
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The photo is from the RRHF. Levon donated it to them and then they ruin the display by showing him playing another mandolin (his EM200 electric Gibson). Seriously, these professional museum curators couldn't find an old photo of Levon with his mid 20's Loar era F4? Without the serial no. it would hard to narrow it down from that photo other than Loar era F4. Tuners may not be original!
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