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Vintage & Used Instruments - Open Back Banjos (5-string) LUSCOMB PATENT 1893 BANJO (1890's)

LUSCOMB PATENT 1893 BANJO (1890's)

EC ~11-5/8" skin head, metal clad wood rim, 30 cobra-type hooks and nuts (at least one replacement), one piece mahogany neck with nicely carved heel, 18 fret ebony fingerboard, ebony peghead overlay and heelcap with pearl inlay, intricate pearl fretboard inlay, "WES" engraved on heart inlay at 16th fret, ~26-3/4" scale, ~1-9/32" nut width, "PAT. MAY 8, 88" Patent Pegs with ivoroid buttons, reproduction No Knot tailpiece, metal plate on dowel stick reads "LUSCOMB'S - PATENT-1893-BANJO - PAT. SEPT. 12, 1893 - BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A.", a really nice late 1890's banjo, made by Thompson & Odell in Boston, on consignment (SN:132)
60U-2213... - No longer available - $1,700.00

body-front (click)	front (click)	back (click)
bridge (click)	fretboard (click)	headstock-back (click)
headstock-front (click)	heel (click)	inlays-2 (click)
inlays-3 (click)	inlays (click)	rim-back (click)
rim-detail (click)	rim-detail2 (click)

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