Re: Catania Creation? Very colourful.
I saw pretty much this same model on German eBay a few years back for like 200-300 euros, but it was optically in better condition. It still had the wooden bottom part that's missing from the one shown here. Had concerns about the action / playability of it though, so I decided against buying it.
Then some time later I saw one in worse condition without an inlayed fretboard (possibly replaced).
So these mandolins have existed in Germany at some point in time. Yet a lot of Italian mandolins have been imported to Germany in the early 1900s.
The headstock to me has some resemblance to Roman mandolins. The tailpiece is also somewhat embergher-esque but this type of tailpiece might have been ubiquitous all around Europe.
Definitely a beautiful mandolin nonetheless.
Eastman MD-315, Eastman MDO-305, Kentucky KM-150, Calace 1917, Gibson A ~ 1920, Johnson resonator mando
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