GG197 European parlor from around 1920

Another guitar from the waiting room was a GammelGura this summer. A slightly later European parlor from the 1920s. At that time, people began to manufacture more or less imaginative and decorated parlor guitars. Some with a different and odd body shape, this one just had a different stall and some extra mother of pearl bling around the sound hole...

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Russian Krasnoshokov guitar from 1873

Received a small package with a guitar. Small because the neck was loose and the guitar body unusually small. Not so surprising since it is a Russian seven-string guitar from 1873 with an adjustable Stauffer neck that is not glued to the body. I have a hard time turning down interesting projects like this. Got these pictures on…

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