Other Used Banjos
Maker: Bacon
Year: Early 1920's.
Notes:
Short-Scale Tenor Banjo with 21" Scale.
11 1/2" Rim with Silver Bell Tone-Ring
and snap-in back.
Cremona Brown Sunburst.
Original Grover spring-loaded tuners.
Strung with Celtic-tuning strings.
Pretty much original and AS-Found condition with a couple of minor binding repairs.
Some fretwear.
Original Hard Case is serviceable and restorable condition.
Offered AS-IS
[An excellent choice for a reproduction 5-string neck].
Maker: Bacon
Year: 1921
Notes:
17-Fret Bacon Tenor Banjo.
Hollow-rim construction with famous Bacon tone-ring.
11" Rim.
Some playing wear but straight and original.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1928
Notes:
Excellent and attractive Montana #3 Silver Bell Plectrum.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1925
Notes:
Nice mid-'20's Silver Bell #1 Tenor banjo.
Never had a knee-mute, but hole in rim allows for the installation of one.
Good Post-War hard case.
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1927
Notes:
A great one-owner Silver Bell #1 Tenor Banjo with extended fingerboard.
Includes original knee-mute.
Original Hard Case.
Minor playing wear.
Maker: Epiphone
Year: ca. 1925
Notes:
Epiphone Recording Artist Tenor Banjo.
Minor veneer damage on back of resonator.
Partial old re-fret.
Interesting less-deep Resonator.
Original tailpiece seems to have been replaced by a vintage Oettinger finger-style Tailpiece.
Original hard case in usable and salvageable condition.
We are offering this banjo "AS-IS"
Maker: Epiphone
Year: Mid-1920's
Notes:
An All-Original Recording B Plectrum Banjo.
Gold-Plated.
Solid Brazilian Rosewood Neck with Ebony fingerboard
and Engraved Pearl Inlays. Brazilian RW-veneered Resonator and Rim.
Grover Gears with M-O-P Knobs.
Original Tailpiece replaced with period Oettinger Tailpiece.
[There is an Original Armrest undergoing repair]
Original Hard-Shell Case.
Neck is straight, modest fretwear.
In AS-FOUND condition and offered AS-IS.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1922
Notes:
This is the BIG Gibson Guitar-Banjo:
14" Rim with Trap-Door.
Basically in wonderful original condition, but with two
issues: The little latch gizmo that holds the trap-door closed is
busted, but probably repairable.
[Trap-door is presently secured with a rawhide string.]
The Neck has a bit of forward bow causing highish action.
The Tailpiece, Bridge and Ivoroid Pick-Guard are all original equipment.
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: 1922
Notes:
Original and straight.
10 1/2" rim.
Low action, great playability.
Original Hard Case
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1928
Notes:
Some scratches on the back of the resonator, but otherwise
Extra-Fine and Original. Straight Neck, low action,
almost un-played.
Grover "window-frame" Tailpiece.
Nice, original Hard Case.
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: 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: Slingerland
Year: ca. 1930
Notes:
A 17-Fret Short-Scale Tenor Banjo
with 10 3/4" rim and 21" Scale.
Old Skin Head over some sort of Arch-Top Tone-Ring.
Well-Traveled with Minor Fretwear, Straight Neck
and Low Action.
Pretty much All-Original with Grover pegs with Ivoroid Buttons.
A Good Banjo for Celtic Tuning.
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 ABM Planetary Geared Pegs.
New TKL Hard case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1930
Notes:
A well-traveled Vegaphone Soloist Tenor Banjo,
one model below the Vega Artist.
These banjos were partially gold-plated and this example
exhibits old gold on the flanges, tension-hoop,
clam-shell tailpiece, Vega armrest and the Grover geared pegs.
Engraved pearl inlays.
Old refret, good neck and action.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1922
Notes:
11 13/16" Tubaphone Rim.
21" Scale Length.
Great example.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1921
Notes:
10 11/16" Tubaphone Rim.
19 1/2" Scale Length.
A Sterling and Straight example with minor playing wear.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1925
Notes:
Short-Scale 17-Fret Whyte Laydie Tenor Banjo.
10 15/16" Head.
20 1/2" Scale length.
Calf-Skin Head, other options available.
Celtic Tuning.
Straight neck, Low Action.
Would Benefit from a Good Set-Up and a Set of Planetary Geared Pegs.
Original Hard Case.
Offered AS-IS
