Item 53
Price: $20,000
Appraised Value 2016: $25,000
Appraised Value 2021: $25,000
The soundboard is made of matched halves of quartersawn spruce whose grain spacing varies from 28 per inch to 16 per inch. The grain pattern is straight with much medullary grain showing through. The rosette has a pattern band of red eagles with spread wings on a natural-wood-colored background with delicate light blue accents. Rings of half chevrons surround this pattern band. The bridge is rosewood with its tie-block is capped with a frame of bone.
The sides and two-piece back are Indian rosewood. The neck and head are cedar with the head faced with rosewood. The fingerboard is ebony with medium frets and a bone nut. Engraved tuning machines with plastic grips are fitted. The unique internal bracing pattern features a five-strut fan pattern with two extra half-struts parallel to and near the centerline of the lower bout. The half-struts, presumably, are in place to tune the soundboard’s projection over all octaves. The guitar still has its original French polish of shellac finish.
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