Aha! Orchids and the like. Maybe some Spanish moss. There ya go! The more, the merrier. Maximum coverage.
Aha! Orchids and the like. Maybe some Spanish moss. There ya go! The more, the merrier. Maximum coverage.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
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Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
That's cool in so many ways, Jim. I love it.
Thanks for sharing.
"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Well ... not a pickup truck, exactly, and not in tune, either, but a memorable scene indeed!
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Oh, no, sir, just a bit of jollity. No need to pay it no nevermind. You did get the gist of it right. I don't remember much of this movie other than Jack's character's recipe for toast.
My goodness! Whoever shelled out a Grant for this hunk of junk sure got his money's worth in palaver over here!
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
I'm watching this one, if it sells I'm going to have to start dumping projects,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/175542951392
Last edited by MikeEdgerton; Dec-22-2022 at 7:53pm.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Not showing up.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
This one?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/175542951392
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I'm guessing at some point enough offers will have been made that the seller decides to accept something more realistic. Or, leaves in a huff. Doesn't look like there's much history, and none as a seller.
2018 Kentucky KM-950, 2017 Ellis A5 Deluxe
Looks like a mandola?
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
That is the most cockamamie, frustrating, off-putting presentation of a mandolin for sale I have ever seen. Doesn't get around to showing wood until the fourth photo, nor a full-frame photo until the last one, #20. No verbiage whatsoever. And he's arbitrarily added about ten years to its vintage. Suddenly near the end we have a strong candidate for Oddball Of The Year.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
I asked (via eBay contact) "What does it say on the label?" and got back 2 separate replies:
On the inside it says. March 30 06
On the piece that is in my hand it says pat July 4 1911
Intentional or not, presenting too much fuzzy detail might let some buyer construct a mental image of a thing that is worth the asking price.
Last edited by keith.rogers; Dec-23-2022 at 8:26am.
2018 Kentucky KM-950, 2017 Ellis A5 Deluxe
Years ago at a flea market, I saw an old trunk for sale. I asked the seller how old it was. The seller said, "we did a little research and pulled out a big legal pad with handwritten patent numbers and dates, another book picturing antiques, telling us about others he had seen, etc., he went on and on, but he finally concluded with the BEST we can figure it was made sometime between 1492 and 1974!!!" I think he was serious, too! Whenever I drive by that flea market I think of him.
"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
Yep. A project at best and certainly not for that price. Terrible photos, but the bridge foot top crack is a concern, among other things. The seller has only been on eBay for a year and all his feedback is from buying. None from selling, FWIW. Most of his listings are for video games. No judgement, but his chest of drawers has a bag of Pedigree on top of it and underwear hanging out of the drawers with coins on the floor that haven't been picked up? His buddy holding it for the pictures seems to have elaborate neck tattoos, again no judgement....but I see red flags.
PS I did offer $150 plus shipping and it was rejected.
That March 30 '06 is printed on the upper edge of label and refers to the design patent date, AFAIK, not the manufacture date. That proves it was built after that date, nothing more. Same with the date on the bracket.
Furthermore, if it were actually a 1906, it would have one of those small pickguards affixed to the surface, yes? Not a big one (missing) with a bracket. Looks like a teens H-1 to my tired eyes. My 1916 H-2 is very similar. But his has no fleur-de-lis.
The seller really should have done more research before listing it.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Did a number on the metal though. Almost removed the number in the cleaning process.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
My best guess from the poor pictures is that it's a sheraton brown H-1 mandola, built between 1918 and 1921.
Cross-grain fractures such as the one above the bass foot of the bridge tend to be serious, and should be handled by an expert.
Expect more repairs to be necessary than what can be discerned from the pictures.
Observe that the plating on the tailpiece cover has been ruined.
The bridge appears to be a mandolin bridge from a later period.
The asking price is more than double what the instrument is worth in its current condition.
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