Neapolitan lyre mandolin, by Fratres Calace, Naples, 1897, t...

Hammer

£500

Neapolitan lyre mandolin, by Fratres Calace, Naples, 1897, the rosewood back of bowl form, the table edged with multiple purfling, the oval sound hole edged with mother of pearl segments set in black mastic above a tortoiseshell plaque, brass rods extending between the head and the lyre arms, the machine heads with bone pegs, labelled Fratres Calace - Neapoli Fecerunt 1897, Nic Calace