Instruments for sale
I'm proud to announce that in conjunction with Colin McCubbin's notecannons collection I will be offering for sale a variety of the more exotic resonator instruments from that collection over the next few months, as well a some of my own instruments. All the instruments I sell will have been carefully checked over by me and I will have done any repairs or setups that they require to put them into first class playing condition.
Recently completed (and already sold) are 3 Dons, a style 1 square neck, style 1 round neck and style 2 round neck.
Instruments I have recently completed include several single cone National mandolins, tenors in both single and tricones, and plectrum guitars, again in single cone and tricones. These long necked plectrum guitars in particular are some of the rarest (and funkyest!) Nationals ever built.
March 2010. A super rare Aragon will soon be offered for sale here, I worked on this instrument some years ago, and it is spectacular, even the wood cover plate is intact. And, in my workshop I now have a very clean, tricone necked, German silver bodied style 0, which will also be for sale @$10,000 once I have completed any neccessary work. These very early single cone instruments were made with 3 piece bodies, before the introduction of the deep draw press, and have no engraving. Although they are usually referred to as style N, the 1928 National catalogue confirms them as the first style 0, (with no palm trees or other decoration) and this instrument with 'special' written inside may well be the earliest, and perhaps first, metal bodied single cone known! (BTW The 1928 catalogue lists style 0, (single cone) and style 1, style 2 and style 3 (tricones) so perhaps we should call them style 'Zero', rather than 'Oh').
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- Tenor guitar (style 2, tri-cone). Serial # 569
- Tenor guitar (style 1, tri-cone). Serial # 105
- Tenor guitar (wood body, electric prototype!). Serial # N419
- Plectrum guitar (style 1, single cone). Serial # 1218
- Tenor guitar (style 2, single cone). Serial # 941
- Tenor guitar (style 1, tri-cone). Serial # 38
- Mandolin (style 1, single cone). Serial # 571
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Guitar (style 0, single cone, Sq Neck). Serial # B900Sold. -
Guitar (style 0, single cone, Round Neck, with Collegian coverplate.)Sold. -
Guitar, (fiddle edge, Sq Neck). Serial # None.Sold. - Mandolin (style 2, single cone). Serial # 455
- Mandolin (Triolian, single cone). Serial # 721W
- Mandolin (Triolian, white, single cone). Serial # None
- Mandolin (Triolian, polychrome, single cone). Serial # 125
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Mandolin (style 1, Silvo, electric). Serial # NoneSold. -
Mandolin (Rosita, wood body). Serial # NoneSold. - Plectrum Guitar (style 2, tri-cone). Serial # 302
- Plectrum Guitar (style 1, single cone). Serial # 717
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Guitar (style 1, Don, round neck). Serial # X48Sold. -
Guitar (style 1, Don, square neck). Serial # X70Sold. -
Guitar (style 2, Don, round neck). Serial # X78Sold. -
Tenor guitar (style 1, single cone). Serial # 1045Sold. - Plectrum Guitar (style 3, tri-cone). Serial # 198
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Tenor guitar (Triolian, single cone). Serial # 2067PSold. -
Duolian 12 fret Guitar, 1930.Sold. - Tenor guitar (style 1, single cone). Serial # 964
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Guitar, (fiddle edge, AluLite, Sq Neck). Serial # NoneSold. -
Guitar (Triolian, single cone). Serial # 2356W/S649Sold.
Tenor guitar (style 2, tri-cone).
Serial# 569
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Description:
Case:
OHC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,750.00
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Tenor guitar (style 1, tri-cone).
Serial# 105
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Description:
Early non spiral cones, the thinnest I have ever seen! Sounds great.
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2,500.00
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Tenor guitar (Wood body, electric).
Serial# N419
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Description:
The only Electric tenor I have ever seen. Clearly marked 'sample' on the neck stick and on the body. The pick up is similar to that found on the electric style 3 Don in the Notecannons collection.
Case:
Non fitted old hard case.
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$1,500.00
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Plectrum guitar (style 1, single cone).
Serial# 1218
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Description:
Case:
HC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,100.00
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Tenor guitar (style 2, single cone).
Serial# 941
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Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,100.00
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Tenor guitar (style 1, tri-cone).
Serial# 38
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Description:
Case:
Sold.Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2,500.00
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Mandolin (style 1, single cone).
Serial# 571
Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$1950
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Guitar (Style 0, square neck).
Serial# B900
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Description:
Case:
Orig Hard Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,500.00 Sold.
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Guitar (1934 Style 0, with Collegian coverplate).
Serial#
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Description:
This instrument is from Marc's collection, it has an old headstock repair and new tuners, and at some point has had a Collegain coverplate added.
Case:
?
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,400.00 Sold.
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Dobro guitar (Fiddle edge, Romeo and Juliet scene on back).
Serial# None
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Description:
Hawaiian neck, the pictures don't do it justice. In all our catalogues I've never seen this particular sandblasted patern, it must be really rare!
Case:
No
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,500.00 Sold.
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Mandolin (style 2, single cone).
Serial# 455
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Description:
Rare and shiney! A real beauty.
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2500
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Mandolin (Triolian, single cone).
Serial# 721W
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Description:
As clean as can be, could have been bought new from the factory last week!
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$1950
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Mandolin (Triolian, white, single cone).
Serial# None
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Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2500
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Mandolin (Triolian, polychrome, single cone).
Serial# 125
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Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$1650
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Mandolin (style 1, Silvo, electric).
Serial# None
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Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2200 Sold.
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Mandolin (Rosita, wood body).
Serial# None
Description:
Rare wooden bodied resonator mandolin.
Case:
OHC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$800.00 Sold.
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Plectrum Guitar (style 2, tri-cone).
Serial# 302
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Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,400
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Plectrum Guitar (style 1, single cone).
Serial# 717
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Description:
Very rare, transitional model, single cone in a pearshaped tricone style body!
Case:
Custom Calton Case
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2,700.00
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Guitar (style 1, Don, round neck).
Serial# X48
Description:
Case:
Custom Calton case.
Status:
Sold
Price
$17,500.00 Sold.
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Guitar (style 1, Don, square neck).
Serial# X70
Description:
Case:
Original hard case.
Status:
Sold
Price
$12,500.00 Sold
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Guitar (style 2, Don, round neck).
Serial# X78
Description:
Case:
Custom Calton case.
Status:
Sold
Price
$22,500.00 Sold
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Tenor guitar (style 1, single cone).
Serial# 1045
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Description:
Apart from replaced tuners a really clean example of the tenor guitar.
Case:
OHC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2,100 Sold.
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Plectrum Guitar (style 3, tri-cone).
Serial# 198
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Description:
Case:
OHC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$7,500.00
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Tenor guitar (Triolian, single cone)
Serial# 2067P
Description:
Great body and neck, missing tailpiece, missing 2 tuners, fingerboard is snapped at body join under the fret. To go 'as is'. (Unless I can source the parts in which case I'll fix her up and she'll go for a lot more!)
Case:
In old guitar case.
Status:
Ready to go..For sale 'As is'.
Price
$750.00 Sold.
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Duolian 12 fret Guitar, 1930.
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Description:
From the golden years of the Duolian, this is from Marc's collection. Fitted with a new fingerboard, and with it's paint substantially intact, this 12 fretter is loud and perfect for player and/or collector.
Case:
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Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,500.00 Sold.
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Tenor guitar (style 1, single cone).
Serial# 964
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Description:
Case:
Custom Calton Case.
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$2,100.00
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Dobro Guitar, 'Dobro-lite' (Fiddle edge, Round Neck).
Serial# None
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Description:
An extraordinarily rare Dobro, especially in this condition. The few of these that we have seen in the past have lost most of their paint, but this one has 99% of it's paint cover intact. There is a small dent in the bass bout, and a pick scratch on the coverplate, see pics, but apart from that it is as clean as you can hope for.
Dobros don't normally have a neck stick that travels under the cone, but the fiddle edge instruments like this one did, they had a shallower cone well and a cone with lugs inside the cone to allow the cone to sit higher.
Case:
OHC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,200.00 Sold.
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Guitar (Triolian, single cone).
Serial# 2356W/S649
Description:
With 2 serial numbers (S649 on the body and 2356W on the headstock), this is almost certainly a style O body with some sort of factory blemish that was then finished with paint as a Triolian. Paint is 99.9% intact, and it is as clean as I've ever seen. Could have left the factory last week!
Case:
OHC
Status:
Ready to go.
Price
$3,800.00 Sold.
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