From the heyday of the ukulele craze, the 1920s-30s, this very cool SS Stewart soprano ukulele. Stewart was a top-of-the-line banjo company from Philadelphia, going back to the late 1800s and with both the facility and...
These are unusually fine 19th-century bone bridge pins with heart-of-abalone dots that are larger than usual, quite rare. They also have little holes laterally through them just under the heads, if one wants to thread...
A lovely and most unusual set of four bone bridge pins from the 19th-century. Rather than having pearl dots inlaid into them, they’ve got concentric circles lightly cut into the tops with a diminutive inset depression...
I’ve been accumulating older bridge pins here since the early 1960s; 19th-century ones of bone, some with abalone dots, early-mid 20th-century ones, mostly from older Martins. Some are in complete sets, some are partial...
These pins were taken from an otherwise unsalvageable Martin that came in sometime over the fifty-plus years I’ve been involved with restoration and repair of Martin guitars. They are unusual in that they are of the...
This set was taken from an otherwise unsalvageable guitar that came in sometime over the fifty-plus years I’ve been involved with restoration and repairs. They are of the “short white no-goove” type common to Martins...
A beautiful, fancier Waverly tuning machine plate, embossed with hibiscus-and-oak leaves pattern; original buttons. WAVERLY M.P. CO. stamped onto center of back of plate, One worm has a slight hitch in its giddyap,...
An earliest of Waverly side-mount turning machine set. Two buttons replaced but you gotta look real close to know. $95
I’ll bet a bunch of you out there know exactly who made this and what it’s from; what I know is that it’s rare, it’s American-made, and it's from a top-grade American 1910s-30s guitar; I just can’t remember where I’ve...
From that great year of 1874…….or maybe just a wee bit later. H. W. White’s fabulous invention that, far as I can tell from the original US Patent Office description and drawings, was intended to be both a...
This is a most unusual, extremely rare and certainly unique Gibson guitar, a complete L-5 with the then brand-new “small diagonal pickup” introduced in 1941. The entire body, and all of its internal structural...
It is known that John D’Angelico, the most revered maker of carved-top guitars ever to have lived, started out by learning to make mandolins from his uncle, Raphael Ciani, here in the Little Italy neighborhood of New...