A classical guitar circa 1800, stamped M.C. Mousset à Paris on the inside back and neck block; the back and sides of bird's eye maple with a chevron pattern binding continuing to the upper section of the fingerboard, the floral decorated soundhole set in black mastic, seventeen fret fingerboard, ebony to the ninth and spruce to the twelfth with upper five frets set in top, ebony pin bridge with curved feet and pearl eyes, the length of back 17½in. (44.5cm), string length 25¼in. (64.2cm), in hardshell fitted case