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MAURER STYLE 30 (c.1932)

MAURER STYLE 30 (c.1932)
EC except for minor finish checking, very rare high end model -- teardrop shape with 9-1/8" body width, ~13" scale, Brazilian rosewood sides and back, ivoroid-bound bent top with very fancy marquetry purfling, ivoroid-b-w-bound back, b-w purfling on sides, ivoroid-bound soundhole with pearl and half-herringbone rosette, inlaid tortoise plastic pickguard with pearl vine and flowers inlaid, ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard with dot inlays, slotted diamond inlay at 10th fret and pearl clover at 5th fret, fancy inlay in headstock, covered tuners with heavy floral engraving on back of headstock, engraved clamshell tailpiece (some plating is worn off to the brass), compensated rosewood bridge, made by the Larson Bros. in Chicago, on consignment, with period shaped HSC (green plush lining) (SN:18856?)
90U-5303... - No longer available - $2,800.00
body-front (click)
front-detail (click)
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body-back (click)
bridge-tailpiece (click)
case-open (click)
case (click)
fretboard (click)
headstock-back (click)
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