Neapolitan mandolin by STRIDENTE made in Napoli 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.
Fingerboard, neck and head veneered with tortoiseshell and edged with mother of pearl seventeen metallic frets.
Body of thirty five rosewood fluted ribs divided by metallic stringing and edged with pink rosewood.
Machineheads enclosed within an engraved plate.
Facsimile label applied on the original round Stridente's label:
STABILIMENTO MUSICALE
Abate & Figlio
Napoli
CORSO GARIBALDI
Total length : 612 mm
Scale : 336 mm
