| Serial Number | N/A |
| Pricing | $1999.99 CDN with case. SOLD |
| Neck | Mahogany neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard, four pearl dot markers, rosewood peghead overlay and pearl logo. Pronounced V-profile. Neck is built of two pieces of mahogany with a center rosewood stiffener. |
| Frets | 14 original bar frets to the body, very little wear. |
| Body | Mahogany back and sides, X-braced spruce top. Binding around top and back. |
| Finish | Clear lacquer finish throughout. |
| Hardware/electronics | 3-per side nickel-pated strip tuners with white buttons, bakelite pickguard, nickel-plated tailpiece. Bone nut, and bridge is rosewood with bone saddle. |
| Playability/Action | This guitar is strung with light strings and plays well. It predates the introduction of adjustable truss rods, so the neck is a bit thicker, yet not too big. |
| Case | Case included. |
| Comments | Round-hole archtops like the Orpheum No.3 appeared during the 20’s and by the mid 1930’s had been almost completely replaced by F-hole archtops or round-hole flat-tops. A round-hole archtop makes an appearance in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, used by Groucho in a canoe for a variety of purposes.
This example also has original bar frets; fretwire changed not much later to the modern tang-and-bead design still in use. |
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