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"A cruder version of the two preceding instruments [Museum nos. 207-1882 and 211-1882], with simulated purfling painted on the pine belly. The neck and pegboxes are painted black. The fingerboard (length 33 cm) at one time had seventeen frets, but has been refitted with fourteen brass frets. The main peg box is for seven strings and the upper for five. The upper pegbox has a straight nut and a square finial". - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 54.