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Treble guitar

back: flat, one piece of softwood: endpiece: ebony with an ivory nut, and curled up beyond its ends like moustachios to ebony knobs each with a pearl spot; 6 ebony pins with pearl spots in the ends. Fingerboard: ebony, with 17 brass frets; neck: ebony, at the back rat-tailed into the pegbox. Head: boxwood, cut in a figure of 8, veneered with ebony; pegs: 6 pear-shaped, with pearl spots in the ends; ribs: wood similar to back, but figured all round; a band of darker varnish like that found on some viols; endpin: ivory, 2 ebony studs beneath, and a line of ebony between the ribs. Inside: body lined top and bottom, 3 cross-bars on both back and belly. Length 515, body 235, width 125/98/160, depth 48, fingerboard 220

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  • Period:19th century
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  • Decorative elements:ebony and ivory inlaid around edges and sound-hole
  • Inscriptions:ivory endpin engraved with 'H’ (antiqua); otherwise unsigned
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  • Repository:Royal Northern College of Music