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: ca. 1920
Notes:
An All-Original Banjo-Mandolin with a Skin Head and Great Playability.
Famous Bacon Tone-Ring.
10" Rim.
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: 1920's
Notes:
Excellent Mid-1920's B&D Silver Bell #1 Plectrum Banjo.
Good Neck and Action.
All-Original.
Planet Geared Pegs.
Never had a Mute.
Original Hard Shell 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: Bacon & Day
Year: 1925
Notes:
A lovely and straight B&D Silver Bell Plectrum Banjo.
Seemingly restored some years ago with refinish
and re-plating. Otherwise All-Original.
The Knee-Mute has been disconnected, but most all of the required
parts are included.
Non-Original Hard Shell Case.
Maker: Deering
Year: 1995
Notes:
As nice a Deering 6-String Guitar-Banjo
as one could find anywhere.
Almost un-played and original, with straight neck,
low action, non-original hard case.
Maker: Epiphone
Year: 1929
Notes:
Top-of-the-Line Beltone Artist Tenor Banjo, manufactured by Epiphone
late 1920's. Walnut neck and resonator with ebony fingerboard.
Gold-plated hardware including Grover 2-tab geared pegs.
Pictured of presumed Caravelle [Nina, Pinta or Santa Maria, your choice] on back of resonator.
Straight neck, good action, original Rogers skin head.
Tailpiece cover needs repair.
All-Original, One Owner, Minor Playing wear,
Excellent original "Alligator" hard shell case.
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: 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: 1926
Notes:
An early PB-Granada.
A heavy flat-head conversion tone-ring has been professionally installed with no alteration or cutting of the rim.
The original Ball-Bearing tone-ring is missing, as are the springs and ball-bearings that supported it.
The original slotted tension hoop has been replaced with a modern Gibson notched hoop. The Hook and Nut sets
appear to be modern replacements. Otherwise, this banjo is in used, but excellent and original condition.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1926
Notes:
Gibson TB-3 with Ball-Bearing arch-top tone-ring.
Terrific original condition with No Issues.
One-Owner Banjo.
Offered AS-Found.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1924
Notes:
TB-5 Tenor Banjo.
18 frets. 10 1/2" Rim.
Moccasin Peghead.
Pretty much all-original.
Missing Tailpiece Cover.
Plays fine; Celtic tuning.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1924
Notes:
Top-of-the-Line Gibson Banjo in 1924.
Mocassin Headstock, Gold-Plated, including modern Gold ABM Planet pegs.
Missing the Trap-Door and Original Tailpiece.
10 1/2" rim with 21" Scale
17 Frets.
Celtic Tuning.
New TKL Hard Shell Case
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1924
Notes:
Maker: Paramount
Year: 1920's
Notes:
A fine Rosewood Tenor Banjo from Paramount, Wm. Lange's Top Brand.
Old refret with slightly larger frets than original.
Original Page geared pegs were replaced by 1970-era planetary geared pegs.
Neck appears to have been refinished at the same time. Neck is straight and playable
and all hardware and parts are original with bright nickel-plating.
The resonator has two short missing pieces of the binding rings on the back.
Pretty nice original hard case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1919
Notes:
Fairbanks by the Vega Co.
A good player's banjo-mandolin, straight neck and low action
[unlike many other 100 year-old Banjo-mandolins].
10 1/8" rim, 13" scale length.
Skin Head.
Sorry, No case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1916
Notes:
A very nice example of a Fairbanks by the Vega Co.
4-String Melody Banjo, meant to be tuned like a mandolin.
Oddly, it has a 14" scale length which might suggest a Banjo-Ukulele, and in fact is presently strung with Aquila ukulele strings.
10 1/8" rim. A barely functional case is provided with it.
Old No-Knot tailpiece and period Planet geared pegs.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
Good playable 17-fret Short-Scale Vega Tenor Banjo.
All Original And Excellent.
