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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 879799, member: 55"]I'd agree; and add that most likely it is more wall-art than a good-sounding playable mandolin. The tuners might help judge age, but there's a lot of glare in that photo. The tuners might well have been replaced, as they look to be fairly new, 1980s-1990s or newer, and the artwork and general style of the mandolin is earlier, 1950-60, perhaps. If someone bothered to replace the tuners, it might imply that it was playable at that time, though the action might have deteriorated since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 879799, member: 55"]I'd agree; and add that most likely it is more wall-art than a good-sounding playable mandolin. The tuners might help judge age, but there's a lot of glare in that photo. The tuners might well have been replaced, as they look to be fairly new, 1980s-1990s or newer, and the artwork and general style of the mandolin is earlier, 1950-60, perhaps. If someone bothered to replace the tuners, it might imply that it was playable at that time, though the action might have deteriorated since.[/QUOTE]
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