Musical Instruments

Good Clifford Essex Concert Grand five-string banjo, bearing...

by Gardiner Houlgate
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£900 - £1,200

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Good Clifford Essex Concert Grand five-string banjo, bearing the maker's trademark plate fixed to the perch pole and stamped no. 1579, with satinwood concave banded resonator, mother of pearl stylised foliate inlay to the fretboard and head, 11" skin and 27" scale length, hard case

*This is a rare export model sent to T. Bevans of Calcutta and has more elaborate inlay than the standard model

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