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Neapolitan mandolin
"Body of twenty-three ribs of sycamore with intervening stringing of darker wood. Pine belly with ivory purfling [bordering] and tortoiseshell protector plate. The round soundhole has crude marquetry surround of mother-of-pearl on metal foil. There are ten frets on the fingerboard and four ebony frets on the belly. Eight pegs for four double courses." Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 40.
- Date:
1761 (?) or 1766-67 (made) - Maker:
Vinaccia, Vincenzo [Person] - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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Naples
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- Materials:Planed sycamore ribs; planed pine belly with ivory purfling (bordering); mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell inlaid soundhole.
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- Inscriptions:"...n.ius Vinaccio Filius / ... Januarii fecit Neapoli / alla strada della Rua Catalana / 176 (1?) Vincenzo Vinaccio, son of Gennaro, made this in Naples, in Rua Catalana Street / 176 (1?)
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- Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
- Measurements:Length: 59 cm total, Length: 26.5 cm length of belly, Length: 12.7 cm Length of neck, Length: 29 cm String length, Width: 17.5 cm
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O58947