Neapolitan Mandolin by Antonio VINACCIA made in Napoli (Italy) in 1784.
Spruce table and soundhole edged with ebony and bone stringing. Mother of pearl decoration design inclued in red-brown mastic around the soundhole and at the both ends.Tortoishell scracth plate edged with bone and ebony stringing.
Cyprus body of 23 fluted ribs edged with ebony bands.
Neck , back of the head and fingerboard veneered with ebony, bone and tortoishell bands.
Little bone turnings decoration on the edge of the head.10 brass frets on the fingerboard and 4 wood frets on the table, 8 boxwood pegs.
2 handwritten label : Antonius Vinaccia Fecit in Via
Constantii Anno 1784 Neapoli
Toatal length: 576 mm
Provenance :Former Collection JUBINAL
Achille JUBINAL (1810 - 1875) was a french historian specialist of the Middle Ages, deputy of the Hautes-Pyrénées and founder of the Bagnères de Bigorre Museum
This collection of musical instruments was partly exhibited to the South Kensington Museum of Londron in 1872 (now Victoria & Albert Museum)
