AN ARCH-TOP GUITAR, NEW YORKER

Details

JOHN D'ANGELICO, NEW YORK, 1950
AN ARCH-TOP GUITAR, NEW YORKER
Inlaid at the headstock D'Angelico / NEW YORK / and engraved Bert Kent, stamped internally D'Angelico / NEW YORK / 1837, ebony fingerboard and bridge, pearl inlay, with hard-shell tweed "orange stripe" case
Length of back 21 3⁄8 in. (54.2 cm.)

Literature

Schmidt, P.W., Acquired of the Angles, Lanham, MD, 1998, p. 166; Tsumura, A., Guitars, The Tsumura Collection, Tokyo, 1987, p. 185.

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