Mandolin
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This mandolin was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknonwn, 19th century. This instrument, listed in the accession file as a Mandolino Florentin, was acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892 and it is subject to study.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095259
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95259
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mandolin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (back; inlay material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (purfling; neck material)
label: Physical Description
content: shell, tortoise (staves next to belly material)
label: Physical Description
content: pearl (inlay material)
label: Physical Description
content: stones (inlay material)
label: Physical Description
content: topaz (center material)
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content: steel (string material)
label: Physical Description
content: pine (belly material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 20 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 52.705 cm x 13.335 cm