Re: What type of Mandolin is this?
To state the obvious:
This mandolin is inspired by Luigi Embergher's mandolins.
They were there the hottest sheet at the beginning of the last century (and still are).
So you will find more or less detailed copies of his mandolins all over Europe. Might be German but always hard to tell unless you find an old catalogue with that exact model.
Looks like your mandolin has an indentation in the headstock with glue residue as far as I can tell from the pictures. There might have been some inlay there. Also the whole top part of the headstock might have broken off at some point and then reglued.
Overall: you have a fluted back and nice ornaments, definitely more on the higher end of the spectrum.
You might want to show it to it to a luthier, this one has the potential to be worth an overhaul.
Eastman MD-315, Eastman MDO-305, Kentucky KM-150, Calace 1917, Gibson A ~ 1920, Johnson resonator mando
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