Bacon & Day Maple, Painted Goldplate and Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid 'Silver Bell' Four-String (Plectrum) Resonator Tenor Banjo, Groton, Connecticut, 1920's-30's. Three layer peghead, 22 alternating painted gold plate and ebony frets, Oettinger tailpiece, the flange pierced with f-hole shaped cut outs, armrest, peghead inscribed in gold plate "Silver Bell" continuing to a leafy vine and beneath a vacant foliate cartouche, the resonator inlaid in the center in mother-of-pearl to form a flowerhead, together with Dean Markley fourth strings, ghs loop end stainless steel wrap LW 26 Strings, Vega V13 silvered steel chenilled strings and V20 nickel wound chenilled strings, a Grover bridge, and box of assorted picks; housed in a soft sided case. H: 37.375 in., Drum head: 11 in., D: 4 in.

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37.375 x 11 x 4 in