Unusual Neapolitan style twelve string mandolin in need of r...

Estimate

£100 - £200

Unusual Neapolitan style twelve string mandolin in need of restoration, labelled Francesco Olivieri..., with fluted bowl back, chevron and mother of pearl banded spruce table, attractive inlaid guard plate and tailpiece, with mother of pearl abalone overlaid fretboard, soft case

*These makers established workshops in Paris in the early 1930s and the premises were regularly frequented by Django Reinhardt