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Harp mandolin, wood with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl inlay, the strings missing. All of dark wood apart from the front of the sound box which is in a paler wood, with black linear inlay round the edges, and mother-of-learl leaf shapes inlaid into black wood round the sound hole. A shaped tortoiseshell scratch plate inlaid to one side of the sound hole. Metal frets, and mother-of-pearl discs inlaid into fingerboard. Solid peg head with wood tuning pegs.
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