Other Used Banjos
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1928
Notes:
Mid-range B&D product, full 19 frets.
Minor finish wear in first position, but little or no fingerboard and fret wear.
Totally Original with great playability. Original hard case.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1927
Notes:
B&D Silver Bell #1.
All-Original Pot.
Probable and Very Professional Repro Plectrum Neck with Bacon-style heel-carving.
Straight Neck, Great Player.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1925
Notes:
A well-played B&D tenor banjo, largely original but
there has been some professional restoration.
Neck was refinished years ago. Modern planetary tuning pegs
have replaced the originals [probably some type of Screw-On Grovers].
Recent Re-fret. The pot is all-original, including all the hardware and the Oettinger finger-style tailpiece.
Period hard case in usable condition.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1929
Notes:
Good student tenor banjo from Bacon & Day.
Basically all-original except for the extra 2 holes in the peg-head
which with 2 extra pegs allowed for the pairing of the first and second strings.
[These extra pegs are now missing and not included.]
Neck is straight with some modest fret-wear.
Replaced tailpiece.
Cool period Elton pick-guard optional.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1930
Notes:
An excellent Sultana #1 Silver Bell plectrum banjo with some up-grading including a fresh gold-plating.
Straight Neck, Great Player.
Old Gold Planet Pegs.
Overspray-caused finish-checking on resonator back.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1928
Notes:
Extra-Fine condition;
straight neck, low action; finish wear on back of neck but almot no playing wear.
Silver Bell tone-ring.
Knee-mute. Great Original Condition.
Maker: Deering
Year: 2000
Notes:
Deering Flathead Tenor Banjo.
Un-played, but with a few dings.
Original TKL hard case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1930's
Notes:
The Very Rare Minty Kel Kroyden TB-11 with the Original 40-hole arch-top Tone-Ring.
Nicest One, with original Grover Geared Pegs and the Grover Window-Frame Tailpiece.
With minty original hard case.
Museum Quality.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1965
Notes:
This banjo is something of a jumble or Harlequin.
1] Nice '60's Gibson TB-250 Neck.
2] Probably not Gibson, but professionally built Mastertone-style pot with
best bronze hardware on a 3-ply maple rim, including a 20-hole flat-head tone-ring.
3] Mahogany resonator that appears to be from a 1990's Gibson RB-3 Mastertone.
4] Original 1960's Gibson Hard-Shell Case
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1925
Notes:
First Year Gibson Ball-Bearing Arch-Top Tone-Ring.
Original 2-tab Grover pegs replaced with modern planetary geared pegs.
Reproduction resonator thumb-screws.
Minor repair on resonator side.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1926
Notes:
1926 TB-3 Ball-Bearing Arch-Top Tenor Banjo
in Exceptional Condition.
All-Original One-Owner Banjo,
very minor playing-wear and a few light scratches.
Original Grover Two-Tab Tuning Pegs and Grover Presto Tailpiece.
Nice Original Hard Case.
2nd Nicest One We've Had.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1927
Notes:
A True One-Owner Gibson Banjo.
No-Hole Arch-Top Tone-Ring.
Tube & Plate Flange.
Original Calf-Skin Head.
Minor Playing Wear.
All the Bells & Whistles:
Pick-Guard, Grover Pick-Holder,
Grover Geared Pegs, Grover Presto Tailpiece.
Original Gibson Wrench, Banjo Mute,
Vintage Gibson String Box.
Original Hard Case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1927
Notes:
Nice all-original TB-4. One-Owner banjo, stored for decades.
Mahogany Neck and Resonator.
Made in 1927, but none-the-less features the 40-hole arch-top tone-ring.
One short section of resonator lip was cracked at some point in the past.
Original Hard case.
Offered on an AS-Found and AS-IS basis.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1924
Notes:
Maker: Lange
Year: late 1920's
Notes:
Great Tenor Banjo from WM. Lange.
Walnut Neck and Resonator.
Brass-hoop tone-ring.
Straight neck, great action.
Totally original and largely un-played.
Note the in-set gold-sparkle seatings for the friction tuners.
Stays in tune, snappy tone.
Nearly perfect original hard case.
Maker: Orpheum
Year: 1919
Notes:
Top-of-the Line Orpheum #3 Banjo-Mandolin.
Good neck and Action. Some playing wear.
All-Original.
Maker: TKL
Year: 1990
Notes:
Hard case for open-back tenor banjo, also fits some older 5-string banjos as this 1890's
Washburn fits nicely. [This banjo is available for sale but not as part of this lot].
Interior dimensions are 35" X 11 1/2"
More cases for sale listed under Swap Meet, Cases, Etc.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1929
Notes:
1929 Vega Little Wonder Tenor Banjo.
19 frets. Open-Back. A little fret-wear,
A little forward bow, but nice low action.
Modern German KBM Planetary Geared Pegs.
New TKL Hard case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1921
Notes:
A Rare Vega Melody Banjo/Banjo-Uke.
Presently strung with Nyl-Gut strings and tuned as a uke, but may have been intended to be strung with steel strings and tuned to mandolin tuning.
7 5/8" rim, 13" scale.
New Hard-shell Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1920
Notes:
10 11/16" Tubaphone Rim.
Modest playing wear.
Straight Neck, good action.
Celtic Tuning.
Excellent and Original.
Offered in As-Found Condition.
