Guitar by Valentino de Zorzi, Florence, 1898, the two piece ...

Hammer

£2,000

Guitar by Valentino de Zorzi, Florence, 1898, the two piece back of maple with inked purfling, the ribs also of maple, the table inlaid around the edge with multiple purfling, pin bridge, the scalloped fingerboard with twenty-three metal frets, the figure-of-eight head with enclosed machines and bone pegs, labelled Valentinus De Zorzi Cenetensi Venetum fecit Florentiae A. 1898, also stamped under the label V.D.Z., in original wooden case