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    i thought I had seen those cylinder guitars in a catalogue reprint. I will check when I am home.
    Re: the Vega cylinder guitars... I found the reprint but there is no date on it. I think I bought the reprint from a catalog collector. It is just the string section of a larger catalog. There are some of the flat and cylinder mandolins on the next page—those are the ones that had the star on the headstock. They also included a long scaled cylinder back mandolin with f-holes as a Walter Kaye Bauer artist model. I have never seen any of those in person. I attached a scan of the guitar page here, more relevant to H-O instruments:
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    Fascinating! Thank you so much.
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    Thanks for posting Bob. I used to live a couple miles from the Orme family store in Ottawa. Orme's Furniture.
    And then a couple years back I picked up a Howe - Orme mandolin in a thrift store.

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    I finally cleared the time to watch this - great video, and thank you! I've had one for many years but did not realize how rare they are. Mine was sold (according to the sticker on the inside) at SS Scheidler's of Kalamazoo MI, so some heavy local competition a the time. I've always wondered what the mandolas sound like, given how small they are - I appreciate getting to hear one.
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    Hard to find much on the Vega guitars with a similar bulging top. This site:

    https://www.guitarbench.com/2010/06/...cott-freilich/

    seems to indicate that they were around from about 1932 to 1935. The one Vega catlog I have that has the cylinder-back mandos doesn't have a guitar, but I think it's probably the earliest catalog to have the cylinder-back mandos. The mandos and "double-huimp" guitars may have coexisted but what I've found seems to suggest the latter didn't roll around until the 1930s. But that's not based on exhaustive evidence, just a quick look-around.
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