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Description:

Italian Bowl-back Mandolin, Raffaele Calace, Naples, 1913, bearing the maker's signed label.
Estimate $200-300

Cracks to soundboard on either side of fingerboard, cracks to soundboard between tailpiece and pickguard, cracks to sleeve guard, some open seams at uppermost rib.


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