Buckbee (?) brass & pewter inlay

 

Home ----------- Jewelry ----------- About Montana Agate ----------- Hunting Montana Locality ----------- About Yellowstone Jewelry ----------- Banjos, etc. ----------- Village of Baoma, Sierra Leone	No markings, but this sure looks like a Buckbee-built banjo.   Scale length 24 3/8". 30 hooks.   Uses a wedge to secure pot to neck.   The fingerboard on this banjo was one of those "ebonized" fingerboards that seem to crumble away to nothing.  I removed all of the fingerboard inlays and transplanted to another fingerboard, left the peghead pretty much as-is (except to replace missing inlay parts). Inlays are MOP, brass and silver metal (pewter?).