French bowl-back mandolin, circa 1850, the typical bowl-back…
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French bowl-back mandolin, circa 1850, the typical bowl-back stylistically crafted in alternating panels of wood. Fine parquetry inlay around sound hole, with an ebonised fingerboard and headstock, 58 cm long

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