Neapolitan mandoline by Fratelli CALACE made in Napoli (Italy) in 1900.
Table of spruce and soundhole edged by black and white, and rosewood stringing.
Rosewood scratchplate.
Ebony bridge.
Rosewood touchpiece, 17 frets, mother of pearl dots.
Back of 17 maple ribs divided by ebony stringing.
Neck and head veneered of rosewood.
Nickeled rass machine head with tinted bone buttons.
Label : FRATRES CALACE - NEAPOLI
FECERUNT
1900
(signed Flli Calace)
Total length : 620 mm.
Width of the body : 250 mm.
The famous workshop FRATELLI CALACE has been founded in1876 by Nicola CALACE (Napoli 1859 - USA 1924) and Raffaele CALACE (Napoli 1863 - Naploi 1934) , Antonio CALACE 's sons
