58-9767
Kentucky (new) KM161 A Style Mandolin
#10030811, F-holes, with gig bag.
Solid hand-carved and graduated spruce top, solid, hand-carved flamed maple back and sides, one piece maple neck with dovetail neck/body joint at the 12th fret Nitro-cellulose finish rosewood fingerboard with M.O.P. dot position markers, “Snakehead” rosewood peghead overlay with inlaid Kentucky script in pearl, Vintage-style rosewood bridge with small adjustment wheels, Traditional 2-screw truss rodcover plate, Bone nut, Highly polished nickel silver frets, Nickel-plated tailpiece with leather insert, High-quality, nickel-plated Gotoh tuners with engraved plate and gig bag.
Our Discount Price is $259.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $251.00.
58-9746
Gibson (used, 1923) A-Jr. Mandolin
#71764, very good condition, with a newer chipboard case.
Our Discount Price is $1,495.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,450.00.
58-9722
Gibson (used, 1924 '25) MB-Jr. Mandolin-Banjo
#11128A27, open back, came in with no case, we may be able to provide it a Levys/Mandolin Bros. gigbag.
In addition to making a full line of professional instruments Gibson, in an effort to reach beginning and talented amateur players, instituted, in May 1923, a line they called “Junior.” In the mandolin-banjo series, the Junior was an open back, mostly seen in the black finish with a matching black headplate (with the center point facing upward), having a black ebony fingerboard displaying six mother of pearl dotmarkers in 5 positions.
Our Discount Price is $902.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $875.00.
58-9685
Kentucky (new) KM-900
#106055, with Travelite hard shell case.
In the Classic Era of American Mandolins there was a single example of a Lloyd Loar Master Model mandolin produced in the A-style. It had a symmetrical pear-shaped body without points or scroll and a perfectly shaped snake-head peghead
Our Discount Price is $1,071.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,039.00.
58-9613
Collings (new) MF Semi-Custom Mandolin
#F1158, Honey Blonde Adirondack Gloss Top, with hard shell plush lined case.
Sometimes Collings Company does something completely unexpected and when they do it fills us with joy and elation. Recently they caused us to do a major double-take by sending us what may well be the most beautiful MF (Collings F-5) mandolins we have recently received. It is not your ordinary MF, no sir, son.
Our Discount Price is $4,361.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $4,230.00.
58-9578
Phoenix (new) Moose T(h)ree Mandolin
#534, two-point, elegantly crafted, with hard shell case.
Features include: quilted maple back and sides, Engelmann spruce top, moose bone nut and saddle, 18 moose hoof print markers, custom inlays of 3 meese, and a leafless tree some of whose branches are covered with snow, surrounded by a dark, glowing sunburst finish. Inside it harbors, for sheer versatility, a McIntyre Feather pickup.
Our Price is $5,877.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $5,700.00.
58-9603
Kentucky (new) KM-350 A-Style Mandolin
#09022501, solid maple back and sides, spruce top, with hard shell case.
Solid carved spruce top with traditional high-gloss nitro-cellulose sunburst finish
Solid carved flamed maple back and sides
A-5 style body
Maple neck with 15th-fret neck joint
Our Discount Price is $432.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $419.00.
58-9571
Gibson (used, 1924) Lloyd Loar signed F-5 Master Model
#75846, in excellent original condition in Cremona Brown Sunburst with the original hard shell case.
We present to you an example of the finest mandolin known to mankind. “What might that be?” I thought I heard someone ask. It is [a flourish of trumpets is heard offstage] a Gibson March 31, 1924 (signed and dated) Lloyd Loar F-5 model mandolin, #75846, bearing Virzi Number (one of the lowest numbers knows although they seem to have been applied in no particular order) of #10002.
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58-9532
Gibson (used, 1924) A-Jr. Mandolin
#80820, snakehead peghead, very good condition, with period or original hard shell case.
In the hierarchy of Gibson instruments the A-Jr. occupies the loftiest perch in the bargain basement. It occupies the basement since it’s the lowest price mandolin in Gibson’s line starting from 1919. It is modest of appointment, to be sure, being that it is all brown all over. This one's in the shop for some much needed rehab, but when it comes up this snakehead Junior will be a shining star, ablaze with prewar panache, ardor and, yes, zeal.
Our Discount Price is $1,804.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,750.00.
58-9031
Gibson (used, 1962) A-40N mandolin
#55857, N” for natural top, in excellent plus condition with original black Tolex® covered hard shell form fitting case.
The Gibson A-40 was for 22 years the least expensive mandolin in the Gibson line. Those years, since you asked, were 1948 to 1970, Simple in its appointments, this carved Sitka spruce, lower case f-hole provisioned acoustic 8-stringed instrument has the neck that joins the body at the 11th fret, with a scale length (nut to saddle) of 14 reliable inches.
Our Discount Price is $1,335.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,295.00.
59-0980
Fender ® (used, 1964) Electric Mandolin, 4-string,
#02689, three-tone sunburst, a tiny Stratocaster-inspired Fender instrument that remains in excellent original condition with original hard shell case.
Yes it shows a few small dings, tiny scuffs. It still has its “ashtray” – a
chrome-plated metal cover that protects the bridge/tailpiece, its abbreviated,
brown, single coil pickup just above the bridge, and a Brazilian rosewood
fingerboard that’s inlaid with 12 clay dots in 10 positions.
Our Discount Price is $3,087.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $2,995.00.
59-0976
Gibson (used, 1926) Snakehead Style A-Jr. mandolin
#82718, in very good condition with original hard shell case.
In the Gibson hierarchy of mandolin models the A-Jr. has, since its inception in 1919, suffered the indignity of being the lowest in the league, the most servile still in service, the ne’er-do-well in the maple and spruce pile. This one was made during the window of opportunity in which the headstock was inverted, that is - it gets skinnier as it heads upward toward the heavens. It was also made in the last full year in which the A-Jr. was offered.
Our Discount Price is $2,056.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,995.00.
59-0947
The Loar (new) LM400VS Mandolin
#10020036, flamed maple, vintage sunburst, with foam hard shell case
The Loar’s new hand carved, nitrocellulose-finished A-model mandolin is a tribute to classic design techniques. From the hand-carved, hand graduated solid spruce top and Flamed Maple back and sides to the abalone/mother-of-pearl fern headstock inlay, these mandolins update Golden Age craftsmanship for the modern era.
Retail Price = $699.97
Our Discount Price is $560.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $543.00.
58-9015
The Loar (new) LM400VS Mandolin
#10020024, flamed maple, vintage sunburst, with foam hard shell case
The Loar’s new hand carved, nitrocellulose-finished A-model mandolin is a tribute to classic design techniques. From the hand-carved, hand graduated solid spruce top and Flamed Maple back and sides to the abalone/mother-of-pearl fern headstock inlay, these mandolins update Golden Age craftsmanship for the modern era.
Retail Price = $699.97
Our Discount Price is $560.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $543.00.
59-0964
Weber (used, 2009) Alder 2 Mandola
#916901, n excellent original condition with gray exterior 5-ply hard shell plush lined case.
The Weber Alder 2, tuned one-fifth
below the mandolin to GGDA (low to high) in doubled unisons is a mighty and also
fancy Celtic style (teardrop body shape) power-flinger having a flat top and
flat back and a D-shaped soundhole below the bottom of the ivoroid bound ebony
fretboard.
Our Discount Price is $1,289.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,250.00.
59-0916
Monteleone (used, 1990) Model Grand Artist
#147, in excellent condition with hard shell form fitting case.
John Monteleone, the luthiery genius of Islip, Long Island, was and is considered by his parents, wife, child, us (ourselves) and the rest of humanity as being the most innovative and finest mandolin builder of the last quarter of the 20th century and, of course, beyond.
Our Discount Price is $28,862.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $27,995.00.
59-0912
Gilchrist (used, 1997) Model 5 Mandolin
#97401, in Cremona Brown varnish finish with rectangular hard shell case.
Mr. Gilchrist, along with Mr. Monteleone, comprises the top two builders of Florentine style mandolins in the world.People have been happily willing to wait five, six or more years to obtain a Gilchrist. This mandolin, which was made in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, displays a headstock emblazoned with a colorful abalone and pearl torch at the center and, above that the stylized “Gilchrist” underlined logo inlaid in script pearl. NOW ON SALE. THIS WAS $25,995. YOU SAVE $2,000 at the Cash Discount Price.
Our SALE Discount Price is $24,735.00 and Our SALE Cash Discount Price is $23,995.00.
59-0918
Earnest (used) Swamp Cat 5-string Electric Mandolin
#ISI1928, with original rectangular hard shell case.
With a lightweight swamp ash body and ears like a cat, the Swamp Cat mandolin has a traditional bolt-on maple neck, rosewood fretboard, and a hardtail bridge with through-body string anchors. Available with either single coil or humbucking pickups, Lady Cat has a clear, bright tone and great sustain, thanks also to the 14.5" scale length. This one's a five-string!
Our Discount Price is $1,438.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $1,395.00.
59-0846
Gibson (used, 1924) A-2Z Snakehead A-style mandolin
#75640, made in the final year of the era at Gibson of Lloyd A. Loar, acoustic engineer and bon vivant, in excellent original condition with equally original hard shell case.
This blonde-face spruce top, brown maple back and sides carved mandolin displays the ferry tisirable letter “Z” after the nearly as exciting “A-2” on its label, and this means that it has the natural finish carved spruce top which is bordered in black purfling with crème side binding, and the fabulous and famous snakehead headstock shape. Its blackest of ebony fretboards is inlaid with 6 mother of pearl dotmarkers in five positions, and bordered in crème binding on 3 sides. NOW ON SALE. WAS $6495!
Our SALE Discount Price is $5,975.00 and Our SALE Cash Discount Price is $5,795.00.
59-0805
Kentucky (new) KM1500 Master Model F-style
#102022, with hard shell case.
The master model KM-1500 from Kentucky uses the finest, most highly figured Michigan Maple combined with the whitest, most fine-grained Adirondack Spruce. These solid woods are meticulously handcarved and graduated — just as were the fabled originals of the early ’20s — to achieve the finest tone quality and volume possible in a new instrument.
Our Discount Price is $2,378.00 and Our Cash Discount Price is $2,306.00.