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Now with Paul in Ottowa.
No markings, but this one sure looks like Buckbee. Has only 12 shoes & hooks, which I attribute to manufacture earlier than 1890 (after which the banjoistic escalation of MORE HOOKS IS BETTER really got started....... current prize-winner for me is a Pollman with 50 hooks ! !)
It also has hex shoes, which I would have attributed to a later banjo. Wonder if soneone scavenged a set of the old, round "knob" shoes from this one?
Pot shows tarnished brass, and I was surprised to see shiny brass at the pot of the pot when I took off the skin head. It appears that this pot and tension hoop were never nickel-plated. Head rests on wood.
Scale length = 25", pot = 10 3/4" dia. String span @ nut = 1 1/16", 1 5/8" @ heel. Action @ octave = a hair over 1/8".
I assume that this is the original finish & inlays. If so, it is pretty ornate for an unmarked, probable Buckbee w/ "paddle" peghead, and the finish is in remarkably good shape for a banjo likely over 100 years in age.
