Summary
Signed and dated by Lloyd Loar February 11, 1924
Mandocello, Style K5
Serial Number 75255
Factory order number unknown
The instrument has a Virzi tone producer, but the serial number is unknown
Description
Strung up as a guitar at one point, original style 5 mandocello tailpiece was in the case and 8 holes originally drilled in the peghead. Converted back to mandocello. Unique peghead shape (prototype?). Virzi (very large) but no visible Virzi label/virzi serial
Featured on Tone Poems 2 by David Grisman
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Source
From Darryl Wolfe.
Darryl Wolfe's F5 Journal is the authoritative work on the subject of Loar-signed and later Gibson mandolins
