PARAMOUNT PLECTRUM HARP (1920's)

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PARAMOUNT PLECTRUM HARP (1920's): VG-EC, maple rim and resonator with ~11" flat spruce top, 16 ovoid soundholes in resonator ledge (think flange), 2-piece maple neck with rosewood-bound rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets, large volute or "hand-stop" on neck behind the nut, pearl split-squares and dot inlays at frets 5,7,9,12 and 17, rosewood double-bound resonator (binding has shrunk a little on back) and soundboard, 3-ply side and back purflings, ebony peghead overlay inlaid with four plaques engraved "PARAMOUNT - PLECTRUM - HARP - Wm L. LANGE" from top to bottom, tailpiece and cover are hinged together, period replacement mechanical friction tuners with ivoroid buttons, essentially a plectrum banjo with a spruce top or...a plectrum guitar in the shape of a banjo, either way a very rare and interesting instrument, mellow tone perfect for practice around the home, 1-3/16" nut width, ~26-7/8" scale, on consignment, with SSC (foam lining)
#80U-2242 .. $1,200.00