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    Very nice photo- Edwardian charm and solidity personified in this group shot of young people and their teachers, I assume.

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    Another find by John Lawson. Here's a vintage photo from turn-of-the century Kansas City. This is the Mascot Mandolin Club from 1902.
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    I just stumbled across this interesting thread. I happen to have two 100 year old Jenkins catalogs...one from 1915-17 and the other from 1919-1920. If anyone here is interested in buying one or both, let me know. Will let them go for $210 each + shipping. Good condition and all intact. Not cheap admittedly but unusual, quite rare and did I say 100 years old!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noteworthy View Post
    I just stumbled across this interesting thread. I happen to have two 100 year old Jenkins catalogs...one from 1915-17 and the other from 1919-1920. If anyone here is interested in buying one or both, let me know. Will let them go for $210 each + shipping. Good condition and all intact. Not cheap admittedly but unusual, quite rare and did I say 100 years old!

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    Might want to move this to the classifieds, not the place to sell things in the forums.
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    HI Noteworthy,

    Does either catalog include Clifford guitars? I have a terz parlor guitar that was dated by someone to be from around 1895. I'm wondering if the Clifford brand was offered from 1915 - 1920.

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    HI Noteworthy,

    Does either catalog include Clifford guitars? I have a terz parlor guitar that was dated by someone to be from around 1895. I'm wondering if the Clifford brand was offered from 1915 - 1920.
    Yes both catalogs have Clifford brand guitars, the later one more so. Here's some pics:

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    I'm sorry if I overstepped pops. Feel free to move them to the classifieds or just delete my post. Or is that something I have to do?

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    Here's another photo from John Dawson's Old Town Kansas City Facebook page. This is from Westport High School in Kansas City, MO circa 1905.
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    There is an identical harp guitar on ebay- right now, for sale- virtually unplayed it is reckoned. It is a Sears, Roebuck "Supertone"- a Harmony made instrument which was a company that Sears had just acquired. I have a Washington mandolin- it may feature in the catalogues- I estimate it is from the 1920s- a Regal made item which one might describe as "mutton dressed as lamb".

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    A friend of mine here in Kansas City bought this photo from a vendor at the city market. The caption appears to be Scandinavian or German.
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    Whoever wrote that needed to be told to write more clearly! As it is Kansas, I'm going to suggest it is German. If it was Minnesota I would say Swedish! I did once learn German and a bit of Swedish but with that scrawl, it is hard to tell!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KanMando View Post
    A friend of mine here in Kansas City bought this photo from a vendor at the city market. The caption appears to be Scandinavian or German.
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    It is Swedish and a quote from Psalms 150:6 — "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord."
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    I just came across this Harwood Bandurria right before this thread started. Rather unusual... tho the mandolin craze in the late 19th century was ironically started by bandurria players, there were v ery few manufacturers of bandurrias in the US. I have seen one made by (or for) Lyon & Healy and now this Harwood. Vega stated on their labels that they made bandurrias but I have never seen one and some folks have surmised that they called their 10 string mandolin/mandolas bandurrias.

    The bridge on that one is a little odd and is not original. Usually these bandurrias have a glued-on bridge (sim to a guitar) combo with the strings going thru top a tailpiece. You can see the outline of the original bridge on the top.
    now that's really cool. i doubt i'd play it but that's a rare collectors item

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    Quote Originally Posted by ollaimh View Post
    now that's really cool. i doubt i'd play it but that's a rare collectors item
    I have a recent one that I have been meaning to string as an octave 12-string guitar. You just reminded me that I had one. Thanks!
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    I took a screen shot of this group from a YouTube video. I don't have any information about them. Click image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by KanMando View Post
    I took a screen shot of this group from a YouTube video. I don't have any information about them. Click image for larger version. 

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    Thanks! Muy coolioso. Any information on the YouTube video itself? What context was this image shown in?

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    This Harwood Lyre instrument just showed up in the classifieds as sold by Bernunzio.

    Here's the page on Bernunzio's site. A converted 12 string mandolin.

    Harwood was a brand name used by J.W. Jenkins Company, a Kansas City, MO musical instrument dealer and wholesaler. They introduced the Harwood brand in 1885, although they did not manufacture these instruments, and were likely made by Hayes in NY. We have seem a small number of Hardwood instruments, but never one like this; a converted 12 string mandolin-lyre into six string guitar. The unusually shaped body features two hollow horns on a mandolin sized body with 11" lower bout; back and sides are mahogany and the top is spruce; fully bound and trimmed with several spots of replaced binding and gap fill; original 12 string bridge, and later moveable rosewood bridge. The mahogany neck has a 19.5" scale length, and was originally setup as a 12 string mandolin; rosewood fingerboard with newer frets; Harwood plaque present at lower edge of fingerboard; instrument plays well as it underwent a neck reset at some point (shim under fingerboard, and notable repairs on side block exterior); gold plated plate tuners, and Hardwood stamps present on back of peghead.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    This Harwood Lyre instrument just showed up in the classifieds as sold by Bernunzio.

    Here's the page on Bernunzio's site. A converted 12 string mandolin.



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    Thanks, Jim. One of these turned up back on post #260 with the attached Jenkins catalog page.
    Fortunately, the one you've posted shows enough clear differences to keep the Harwood "No Two Alike" streak intact.

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    For a moment, I thought we had finally broken the Harwood "no two alike" string with this one the ebay.

    Turns out this is the same mandolin discussed on post #196 in this thread and originally shared on this thread some years back.

    Appears to be in good, if somewhat worn condition and now offered with a nice hardshell case.

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    This image in post#290 I think is the Mystic Mandolin Club, Creston IA, 1896. I have some late 19th mandolin sheet music with this ensemble on the cover page. You can ee this image and several others from music I have in my collection in an earlier thread.

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    I think you have model 320. Here is the 1908 catalog description:

    No. 320 Washington
    Auditorium Size, Rich Dark Figured Mahogany, Highly Polished, Hardwood Neck Mahogany Finish, Selected White Spruce Front, Very Handsome Colored Wood Inlaid Strip in Back, Top, Edges and Sound Hole; Top, Bottom and Sound Hole Edges Bound with Celluloid; Ebony Bridge and Fingerboard; Large Pearl Position Dots; German Silver Frets; Strung with Wire Strings. Each $14.50

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    It's been awhile, but, amazingly so, the Harwood "No Two Alike" streak continues with this one on the Ebay.


    This has a nice engraved tuner plate cover, which apparently required to the serial number to be bumped up onto the headstock 'broken pediment'. Very strange.

    It's too bad that the neck has come out of alignment.

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    And yet another Harwood appears on the ebay.

    This one with an all-mahogany ribbed bowl such was we were discussing earlier, which I think makes for a nice seamless look.
    The headstock lobes look rather clumsily executed.
    The streak continues.

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    Hello brunello97, I am the gleeful winner of this mandolin. It has the triangular trademark stamp inside on neck block. Five digit serial number on back of headstock above engraved tuner plate. Am I safe in assuming this was manufactured in Jenkins' Kansas City factory? Is it worthwhile to post pics of internal trademark stamp and serial number? Would that contribute to, or clutter up the Harwood information quest?

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    Hi Joliff,

    Congratulations on winning the Harwood at auction.

    I think it would be great if you could post some more images of your instrument.
    It would be a good contribution to this collection of material about Harwood instruments.

    As you may have gleaned from the thread, I've yet to see two Harwood mandolins that were the same.
    So many variations and variables.
    I'm not sure if I can be confident at all about which ones might have been made in KC or elsewhere.

    As we have learned in the "Bowlbacks of Note" thread here, every scrap of information is useful and sometimes it might take a few years to
    really make a firm decision about something...only to have it change when new information arises.
    But the MC is the best repository of such information contributed by folks like you!

    We all look forward to seeing and hearing more about your Harwood mandolin.

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