Mandolin

Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy)

ca. 1900 · Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell · Musical Instruments

This beautiful mandolin is decorated with an engraved mother-of-pearl fingerboard, and mother-of-pearl bands edge the spruce top and sound hole. The mandolin has twenty frets, two of which extend over the sound hole. The back is made of fourty-four rosewood ribs separated by celluloid spacers.

Artist

Washburn Co. (Lyon & Healy)

Date

ca. 1900

Medium

Spruce, rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell

Culture

American

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1979