Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: Lyon & Healy
Year: 1920
Notes:
Lyon & Healy's "Own Make"
Professional Style B.
Special Patented Tone-Ring.
Classy Presentation.
Nearly Mint and virtually un-played.
Original Bump Case also in near-mint condition.
Maker: Orpheum #1
Year: 1920
Notes:
An Original 14" Orpheum pot with a Reproduction 5-String Neck by Intermountain Guitar.
26 1/4" Scale.
"Sounds Like a Whole Orchestra"
Hard Case.
Maker: S.S.Stewart
Year: 1890
Notes:
Petite Ladys' banjo from one of the premiere banjo-makers of the late 19th Century,
9" pot, 23" Scale.
Cherry neck with Ebony fingerboard.
Skin head, Aquila nylon strings.
Excellent and mostly original with modern replacement tailpiece.
Great Player.
Maker: S.S.Stewart
Year: ca. 1890
Notes:
A large early Stewart banjo, 13" head diameter from around 1890.
All-original but in well-used condition. Nicely carved heel, all pearl inlays intact,
no structural damage, but the metal skin on the rim
appears to have been aggressively cleaned a long time in the past.
High-ish action, but set up to play with Nyl-Gut strings.
Old Skin Head.
We are offering this instrument in AS-IS condition.
Comes with a gig-bag.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1922
Notes:
A nearly perfect 1922 Vega Little Wonder pot of 10 3/4" diameter,
with famous Little Wonder Tone-Ring.
[Compare to modern Vega Little Wonder banjo by Deering]
Beautiful curly maple and ebony reproduction 5-string neck made by
Intermountain Guitar and Banjo in 2002 and recently repatriated from Europe back to the USA.
In pristine and virtually un-played condition.
Presently is fitted with a fine calf-skin head which can be substituted with Remo frosted plastic head or Renaissance
head. Planetary geared tuners by ABM. Superior Hard Case.
