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Comes with the probably original hardshell case.Д¬lick for pricing and to return to the main pageД¬lick the picture for a very large high resolution picture. Excellent sounding mandolin with a sweet tone, not really a bluegrasser but it is excellent for recording or for just having a nice mandolin around.Here is a link to a video of the mandolin as played by James Hurlburt. Original tuners and fancy engraved tailpiece cover. Has a nice herringbone style soundhole rosette and multi-ply top binding with single ply back binding. The bone nut is 1 1/8 inch on a flat fretboard. This is a Style 202 with a mahogany body and a spruce top. The result has been described as a compromise between the earlier bowlback mandolins and the more modern styles with relatively flat backs. This bulge increases the internal volume of the instrument. The cylinder back refers to a cylindrical bulge running longitudinally along the back plate, from the tailpiece to the neck heel.

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The serial number puts the manufacture date around 1918 - I might be a year off in either direction - there is no exact list of Vega mandolin serial numbers. 35978) Excellent structural condition showing some playing wear. Horns built after 1914 (serial numbers 22,000 and above) were manufactured after the departure of the original owners from the firm.1918 Vega Model 20 Cylinder Back Mandolin 1918 Vega Model 20 Cylinder Back Mandolin

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Boston serial numbers do not appear on horns prior to 1880 and begin in the 6000s.ДЄround 1890 the serial numbers were in the 10,000 range, in 1900 the 15,000 range, in 1910 the 19,500 range, and in 1920 the 24,500 range. The company produced only 4000 to 4500 total instruments in each decade of the 1880s, 1890s, 1900s and 19-teens. The Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury/Company was a low volume producer by modern standards. Clarke did not stay with the Boston for very long, changing horns and manufacturers many times in his career. Clarke had learned to play on his brotherвЂ™s horn and then had played professionally for a time on a band provided Courtois.

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These horns carried the inscription вЂњNe Plus UltraвЂќ on the bell. The Boston 3-star cornets were popular horns of the day and are still respected by collectors and antique cornet enthusiasts.

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He purchased this horn after several months of saving following his graduation from high school and relocation to Indianapolis from Toronto in 1884. Excellent old Jazz boxWe're a small music store in beautiful Mandarin, Florida.

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Clarke, author of many solos for cornet and successful touring soloist of the turn of the 20th century, purchased a Boston 3-star cornet for his first professional quality horn. Two years later the company was purchased by Cundy-Bettony which continued to build instruments in the Boston name until 1928. This change coincided with a relocation to 51 Chardon Street in Boston. Wright and Company had been founded in 1841 and continued as the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury uninterrupted at 71 Sudbury until 1902 when the name was changed to the Boston Musical Instrument Company. Hall and Quinby would be bought by Thomas and Odell in 1884 changing its name to the Standard Band Instrument company and then again in 1909 by the Vega Company. tools, patterns and craftsman was assured in the same. In the 1869 Catalogue announcing the formation of the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury, an opening letter to customers cautions against any firms that might вЂњadvertise in the old name in order to enhance the value of inferior instrumentsвЂќ. Wright left the company shortly thereafter to join the firm of Hall and Quinby (established by David Hall in 1862) which became The Hall Quinby Wright Company until WrightвЂ™s death in 1871. (EG) Wright, Samuel, William and George Graves, and WrightвЂ™s 'practical partners' Henry Esbach and Louis Hartman. of Winchester, New Hampshire combined to form the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury located at 71 Sudbury Street, Boston. Wright Company of Boston, Massachusetts (established in 1841) and Graves & Co. Wright learned from both Graves and Keat before setting out on his own. While in Winchester, James Keat, who had apprenticed to his father Samuel in England around the turn of the century, introduced the Graves firm to brasswind instrument manufacture. Elbridge Wright was an apprentice to Samuel Graves at his original woodwind shop which had been founded in the 1820s in West Fairlee, Vermont and later headquartered in Winchester, New Hampshire.

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