Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1921
Notes:
All-Original Bacon Professional FF-2 Curly Maple
pot with 11 1/2" diameter head.
Reproduction 5-String neck by I. G. & B.
25 1/2" Scale length.
Maker: Lange
Year: ca. 1920
Notes:
Reroduction 5-String Neck by IG.& B.
11 13/16" rim, Wooden Tone-Ring.
26" Scale.
Maker: Lyon & Healy
Year: Ca. 1895
Notes:
A striking Presentation Model from the Chicago-based Lyon & Healy Co.
12" Rim, Scale Length is 27".
Extensive pearl inlay and brass-wire designs. Detailed heel-carving in the Washburn style, extending way up the neck
and featuring either a fearsome Sea Monster or a very happy Spaniel Pup.
Some restoration done in the 1970's. Some replaced hardware. Neck straight, Action Low, Plays and sounds great,
looks terrific on the wall.
Maker: Orpheum
Year: Late 'Teens
Notes:
14" Rim with 26" Scale length.
New 5-String neck by I.G.& B.
Presently strung with heavy strings and tuned
a fifth low.
Maker: Orpheum
Year: Ca. 1915
Notes:
An All-Original Orpheum #2 5-String Banjo from
The early 'teens.
12 1/4" Rim with 28 " Scale.
Carved Heel.
Straight Neck, Low Action.
Great Player.
Maker: Schmick Lyric
Year: ca. 1920
Notes:
All-Original 5-String.
Old Planets.
Straight Neck, Low Action.
10" Head, 27" Scale.
Made by the Vega Co.
Maker: Unknown USA
Year: 1969
Notes:
Nice hard case for ex-long neck banjo.
Probably USA '60's-'70's.
We have no idea what banjos this case was made for.
But wait!
This case is a little short for standard Vega and Gibson "Seeger-Style"
banjos.
Interior dimensions are 41 1/2" X 12"
Very nice original condition.
shipping by UPS $40.00-$60.00
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
Vega 10 1/8" Little Wonder pot from a banjo-mandolin.
Nice reproduction 5-string neck by Mike Easly.
Virtually un-played.
Generous dimensions: 1 5/16" at nut.
2 1/8" where neck meets the rim.
24" Scale.
Modest Scoop.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1926
Notes:
Conversion 5-string neck by I.G.& B.
Curly maple with ebony fingerboard
25 1/2" Scale.
Mid-'20's 11 13/16" Tubaphone Rim.
Piano Volume and Tone.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1922
Notes:
A large Tubaphone pot [11 13/16"] from the early 1920's.
5-String conversion neck by I. G. & B. in 1977.
Well-played for the last 40 years, the 27" scale neck has had a recent re-fret.
Original hook and nut sets have been replaced with modern ones.
Good neck, good action.
New TKL hard case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1920
Notes:
Well-Played All-Original Tubaphone #3 5-String,
Mahogany neck with carved-heel.
10 15/16" rim with 27" Scale.
Maker: Vega
Year: Late 'teens
Notes:
Original "Garber Model" Tubaphone, 12 1/2" rim,
Curly maple reproduction 5-string neck by I. G. & B.
Homer Chalet Garber, "The Marvel of the Banjo World"
had The Vega Co. produce both Whyte Laydie and Tubaphone models
in the Ex-Large rim size.
Ebony fingerboard with 25 1/2" Scale.
Calf-Skin head.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1926
Notes:
A Nice and Original Vega Style R Whyte Laydie with a 10 15/16" rim.
A professional-grade reproduction 5-string neck made by Rhode Island luthier Steve Senerchia,
according to a 1980's Mandolin Bros. Appraisal certificate included with this banjo.
Maker: Washburn
Year: ca. 1897
Notes:
1890's Lyon & Healy Washburn Banjo with 12" rim with hand-engraved German-Silver shell with calf-skin head.
Reproduction neck out of Cherry Wood with 26 1/4" scale ebony fingerboard and hand-carved heel,
by Intermountain Guitar.
Maker: Washburn
Year: 1897
Notes:
An example of Washburn's "1897" line of banjos.
11" rim, 26" scale length. Engraved shell [maybe snail] inlays, Mahogany neck with nicely-carved heel.
New calf-skin head.
This model has the distinctive heavy tension-hoop and the "Imperial" hardware.
Some of the hardware has been replaced, the tailpiece is modern and the action is a bit high,
and for these reasons we are offering this instrument AS-IS.
