Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: Cole
Year: 1895
Notes:
Striking Reproduction 5-String neck from Padouk Wood with Ebony fingerboard by Steve Sutherland.
10" Original Cole Rim from a Banjo-Mandolin.
9 7/8" rim with 24 3/4" Scale Length.
Boat Heel.
Maker: Cole, Wm.
Year: 1890
Notes:
A Largely Original Cole's Eclipse Banjo... The peghead Man-in-the-Moon pearl inlays have been replaced
and the neck refinished.
10 5/8" Rim with 27" Scale Length.
A Really Fine Players' Instrument.
Maker: Cole, Wm.
Year: 1897
Notes:
Rare Cole's Eclipse with spectacular engraved mother-of-pearl inlays [possibly by Consalvi] and carved heel.
The 3rd fret inlay appears to be a replacement. A couple of old repaired heel-cracks.
10 15/16" rim with 26" Scale Length.
Calf-Skin Head. The pot is all-original with the H&N sets apparently re-plated at some time.
A period and possibly original Elite tailpiece.
Original Grover friction pegs with ivoroid buttons.
Straight neck and good action.
Maker: Fairbaks, A.C.
Year: 1899
Notes:
A classic Special Electric...
10 1/2" rim with skin head. 26" Fret-Scale.
The pot is in remarkably clean and original condition.
[a couple of the hook and nut sets have been replaced by
identical examples from another Fairbanks banjo]
Mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard and engraved pearl inlays.
As can be expected with an instrument over 120 years old, it has had some
not terribly instrusive repairs, including a couple of cracks around the 1st and 4th pegs.
Typical cracks in the dyed-wood peghead facing.
Everything is solid, action is low, quite a nice banjo with a little back-story.
Modern ['70's] planetary geared pegs.
Maker: Fairbanks
Year: 1902
Notes:
An Original Fairbanks 5-String Banjo
with a replaced ebony fingerboard and peg-head facing,
with added appropriate pearl inlays.
10" Rim.
26" Scale Length
