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    Default Finnish loggers playing unidentified 12-string F-mandolin 1929

    I noticed this interesting picture while I was browsing for something else in a Finnish folklore library.
    The mandolin has 12 strings, F-modelish figure and the decorations remind my own Napolitan mandolin from the 20s.
    Does anyone recognise this instrument?
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    Default Re: Finnish loggers playing unidentified 12-string F-mandolin 192

    Hmm! Lump scroll.... Encased tuners loaded from the top....
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    Default Re: Finnish loggers playing unidentified 12-string F-mandolin 192

    Very cool. I seem to remember some discussions here on builders copying Gibson but don't know where this came from.
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    Default Re: Finnish loggers playing unidentified 12-string F-mandolin 192

    It reminds me of the lump-scroll Gibson f-style copies made in very small numbers by the Windsor banjo company of Birmingham, England. They were probably experimenting with diversifying into mandolins when the banjo craze was dying down in the 1930s. Those guys look like sailors so might have picked one up in a UK port town.
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