Good Neapolitan mandolin by and labelled George La Foley, Ma...

Hammer

£240

Good Neapolitan mandolin by and labelled George La Foley, Maker of the Mandoline & Guitar, London... no. 1244, 1905, with rosewood bowl back, spruce table, unusual vertical oval sound hole and De Meglio style faux tortoiseshell scratchplate, in original wooden case with brass handle and hinges

*George La Foley was one of the best English luthiers of the 1900s - see 'The Mandolin, a History' by Graham McDonald, page 278, for a description of this mandolin