Re: Are either of these mandolines?
Could the "guitar" one be a čelović, a type of tamburiza or tamburica, Serbo-Croation stringed instruments? I'm not convinced, but it's a possibility. Croatia is quite close to Italy.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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