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❌SOLD❌ Bacon Professional FF Special 5 String Open Back Banjo, 1914

On March 6, 2018 /

This is a very nice Bacon Professional FF Special 5-string open back banjo, built for Fredrick J Bacon of Forest Dale, Vermont, around 1914 by the Vega company. Fred Bacon was a very well known professional banjo player who achieved the ultimate in his time’s mass media exposure – recording for Thomas Edison’s Phonograph Company. The Bacon Banjo Company was formed by Bacon and his wife at their home in Forest Dale, VT in 1906. The banjos were actually built to order by various companies, but primarily by Vega. In 1914, the celluloid Bacon label seen in one of the rear views here appeared in the company catalog. The Bacon Professional FF Special was produced around 1914.

Vintage

Price: $4,375.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Gibson TB-7 Tenor Banjo, 1937

On October 12, 2017 /

Here is a rare treat – from 1937, a Gibson TB-7 tenor banjo and case in good all original condition, having one owner from new.

Vintage

Price: $56,700.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ 1930 Gibson Granada Mastertone Banjo 5-String Conversion

On April 27, 2017 /

Tags: 5-string, antique, Banjo, bluegrass, conversion, country, Gibson, granada, Kalamazoo, made in USA, mastertone, Michigan, Open Back, Resonator, Tenor, The Twelfth Fret, Vintage

The Gibson Granada Mastertone banjo appeared in 1925 in the second from the top position in the Gibson Banjo line, and was built until 1937.

Vintage

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ 1850s Romantic Guitar built by Coffe, Paris

On January 19, 2016 /

Tags: antique, Coffe, romantic, Vintage

During the 1800s there were many romantic guitar builders, in Paris, London, and other European cities.
This fine example was built in Paris around the 1850s and is stamped ‘Coffe’ and signed Coffe – Goguette by the neck block.

Vintage

Price: $2,450.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ C. Bruno and Son Banjo, circa 1867

On June 15, 2015 /

Tags: antique, Banjo, Bruno, Open Back, Vintage

This C. Bruno and Son fretless banjo arrived here about 15 years ago and has been in storage ever since. As is often the case with my “projects”, it was forgotten for years. I recently came into a lovely set of Ivoroid friction tuners that reminded me of the Bruno banjo and its need for appropriate tuners. This 130-year-old set of friction pegs were typical of the 1880s or 90s. And since they are synthetic ivory, they are legal under the CITES regulations.

Vintage

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Gennaro Fabricatore Romantic Era Guitar, 1830

On March 31, 2014 /

Tags: antique, Fabricatore, Gennaro Fabricatore, romantic, Vintage

❌SOLD❌ Gennaro Fabricatore Romantic Era Guitar, 1830

Here is a wonderful 1830 Gennaro Fabricatore Romantic Era Guitar. There seems little doubt that the first modern 6 string guitars had their genesis in Naples in the 1790s, in the workshops of Giovanni Battista Fabricatore. Clearly Gennaro Fabricatore I and II were influenced by Giovanni. Innovations were a common occurrence in the Neapolitan hotbed of guitar and mandolin builders and Gennaro Fabricator soon gave their guitars a unique appearance and gained respect throughout Europe.

Vintage

This instrument has sold

Antique

❌SOLD❌ Bacon Professional FF Special 5 String Open Back Banjo, 1914

❌SOLD❌ Gibson TB-7 Tenor Banjo, 1937

❌SOLD❌ 1930 Gibson Granada Mastertone Banjo 5-String Conversion

❌SOLD❌ 1850s Romantic Guitar built by Coffe, Paris

❌SOLD❌ C. Bruno and Son Banjo, circa 1867

❌SOLD❌ Gennaro Fabricatore Romantic Era Guitar, 1830

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