Mandolin

Neapolitan mandolin with four double courses of wire. Front of fine to wide grain, stained brown, with bend. Soundhole with bevelled edge surrounded by tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl collar. Inlaid tortoiseshell plectrum-guard bordered with mother-of-pearl; similar inlaid tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl at tail. Edging and purfling of mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell and ivory. Back of 21 ribs …