please help identify a mandolin

Subject: Tech: please help identify a mandolin
From: GUEST,jeffry
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 05:32 PM

Hi. When my father died, I inherited an antique mandolin. The only identifier I could find is the bell-shaped badge/logo on the head, but it's very worn, so the name is too hard to see. I've scoured the web for photos of similar mandolins, but I can't seem to find any. Please help point me in the right direction. Thank you. Here are two photos:

http://smu.gs/T1qvVi


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Subject: RE: please help identify a mandolin
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 05:45 PM

There is a paper label inside the mando visible in photo one. What does it say on the label?
- Phil

Subject: RE: please help identify a mandolin
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 20 Dec 12 - 10:26 PM

Ten years ago these fine fellows (for a $25.00 fee) appraised a friends's mandolin

http://www.mandoweb.com/Services/2/Appraisals

It registered as year 1926...her grandmother was in a "chick band "...the friend has zero musical talent nor desire....however, with a "value of 2,600 USD she chose to stuff it back in the cupboard...for her drugstore nephew.

Sincerely, Gargoyle

As my neice says " Who gives a shit....it is just stuff of dead people."

Use it or lose it. Times are tough ...and you can purchase much more for 100.00 than a bobble -head ego stroke.

s .

Subject: RE: please help identify a mandolin
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 21 Dec 12 - 06:29 AM

Try posing the pictures here - http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum

Looks American to me but there were hundreds of makers around in the early to mid 20th century producing the things.