Neapolitan mandolin by FENGA Luigi (1866 Catania - 1939 Catania) made in Catania (Sicily-Italy) circa 1900.
Two piece table of spruce edged with ebony and maple stringing, with mother of pearl decoration included in black mastic, and with alternating mother of pearl and tortoiseshell diamonds.
Soundhole edged with wood stringing and mother of pearl decoration.
Tortoiseshell scratchplate with engaved mother of pearl decoration.
Rosewood bridge with ivory nut.
Engraved mother of pearl fingerboard edged with ebony, seventeen brass frets.
Neck and head veneered with tortoiseshell.
Body of thirty three rosewood fluted ribs divided by metallic stringing and edged with pink rosewood.
Machineheads enclosed in front of the head within one engraved gilt plate, floral and swan design and signed :
MARKA/DI FABBRICCA/FENGA/(swan)
Mother of pearl pegs.
Round label:
FABBRICA DI STRUMENTI MUSICALI A CORDA
L (swan) F
C
marca di fabbrica
LUIGI FENGA CATANIA
Total length : 602 mm
Width of the table : 203 mm
