Mandolin
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ARCH TOP/8 STEEL STRING
- DATE
- 1900
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1966.0198.001
- MANUFACTURER
- HOWE, ELIAS CO.
- MODEL
- HOWE-ORME
- LOCATION
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 1431
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOOD BODY, NECK, HEAD/ STEEL STRINGS/ METAL TAILPIECE & PEGS/ IVORY? TUNING PEGS & TRIM/ SYNTHETIC? PLECTRUM/ WOOD CASE WITH FELT LINING AND SYNTHETIC? COVERING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 61.2 cm
- Width
- 22.3 cm
- Height
- 9.4 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Music
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- HOWE
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Massachusetts
- City
- Boston
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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Unknown - Function
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Unknown - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Blue & white decal on back interior reading 'PAT. AUG. 24 1897/ HOWE-ORME/ 01431/ ELIAS HOWE CO., BOSTON'/ 'PAT. MAY 15-94' stamped into tailpiece/ '01431 ' incised in distal edge of head
- Missing
- From CA of 01/30/1995 by Tony Missio: No - Complete
- Finish
- DARK BROWN STAINED & VARNISHED BACK, SIDES, & HEAD FRONT/ MEDIUM BROWN STAINED NECK & HEAD BACK/ GOLD STAINED & VARNISHED FRONT/ FLAT BLACK PAINTED BRIDGE & FINGERBOARD/ PLATED METAL TAILPIECE/ METALLIC PEGS/ WHITE SHELL PLECTRUM/ BLACK CASE EXTERIOR WITH RED LINING
- Decoration
- TORTOISE SHELL? INSET PIECE WITH INLAID IVORY? CURVILINEAR DECORATION & SUPERIMPOSED "E" & "H"/ GOLD & BLACK PAINTED STAR-SHAPED, DIAMOND-SHAPED, CIRCULAR, OVAL, & ABSTRACT METAL?INSERTS ALONG NECK & HEAD/ GOLD & BLACK LINING AROUND FRONT EDGE/ MULTI-COLOURED INSET DESIGN AROUND SOUND HOLE/ IVORY TRIM ON FRONT, BACK & NECK
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HOWE, ELIAS CO., Mandolin, circa 1900, Artifact no. 1966.0198, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1966.0198.001/
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