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mandolin

Mandolin, made of wood, with tortoiseshell, ivory (or bone) and mother-of-pearl inlay, metal frets and fittings for the eight metal strings (one string missing) in four double courses, attached to a metal tailpiece at the base. The bowl with multiple ribs of alternate pale and mid-brown wood, the joins with strips of dark wood, the front with inlay of wood stained in black, red and green round the edges. An inlaid scratch plate below the sound hole in a darker wood with ivory (bone ?) and pearl inlay, of a butterfly on a flower stem. Bone saddle on the bridge, bone tuning peg heads and discs inlaid in fingerboard. The metal tailpiece stamped 'Dreima', the top of the pegbard stamped 'Foreign'.

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