Neapolitan Baroque mandolin
copy after "Antonio Vinaccia, Napoli 1777"

Strings length = 326mm

The body has 23 marbled maple carved ribs, interpolated with black/white/black borders.

Capping strip of marbled maple carved.

Sound-board of Val di Fiemme spruce, with pickguards of tortoise-shell with under gold leaf; inlays of mother-of-pearl and tortoise-shell with under gold leaf.

Bridge of snakewood.

Neck veneered of maple.

Pegbox of maple, veneered with inlays of mother-of-pearl and tortoise-shell with under gold leaf.

Pegs of galalite with little balls of gold-plated brass .

Fingerboard of tortoise-shell with under gold leaf and mother-of-pearl borders.

Nut of mother-of-pearl

Four string-pins of gold-plated brass.