Originally Posted by
Ray(T)
As I said, the body and neck don’t look contemporary to me.
Disassembly - easy enough - remove the strings and the eight screws into the wooden ring. It should lift off completely, without affecting the head tension and your only problem will be putting the strings back on and getting the bridge back in the same/right place.
That said, I doubt you’ll find anything inside. Most banjos have a makers name on the perch pole inside but this one won’t have a perch pole - the neck will be simply be screwed onto the wooden rim. As for the “coinlike thing”, there will probably be a couple of bent bits of metal on the other side to stop it falling off. It’s purely decorative and helps stop the back getting scratched when you lay the banjo on a table.
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