[VIHUELA] OT: any ideas about this mandolin?

[Stuart Walsh]

My boss at work brought in an old mandolin which belongs to a friend. 
Evidently it has been lying around in a farmhouse attic for years. She 
would just like to know something about it; she has no illusions about 
its value. She thinks it has been in the family for about a hundred 
years and that it came from (and even - was made?? in the West Country - 
surely unlikely).

I know very little about mandolins. It's got some features that I 
haven't seen on mandolins before: side holes, a strip of wood behind the 
bridge fixed to the soundboard -  and the bridge seems rather odd too.


Any ideas would be appreciated.


Stuart

And this time (!!) with a link to the pics:

http://www.pluckedturkeys.co.uk/mandopics/




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