This one was made in that Chicago factory along with Washburn brand instruments and features a maple neck, ebony fretboard and a 22 bracket Van Epps style rim with the Lange style elevated tone ring. Issued a line of instruments stamped вЂњOwn MakeвЂќ to indicate the instruments that were made in the home factory in Chicago. It also has an improvised strap handle as the original leather one probably disintegrated.

Original hardshell case has lots of capos, mutes, bracket nut wrenches, etc in the pocket and is missing an area of the leather cover at the butt of the case. Finish is worn off the back of the neck from playing. The first 7 frets appear to have been replaced, has a nickel-plated metal Lyon & Healey suspended finger rest/pickguard, 22 brackets, Kirshner Unique tailpiece, nice Amraw-branded calfskin head, an unusual tone ring that leaves the head floating off the rim Some of the hooks have some rust and there is 100 years of patina present.

This is a Lyon & Healy 'Own Make' 4 string 'Tango' banjo (mando) with a 10 3/4' pot, four strings, 13' scale It has a long peghead that is very similar to the very cool Art Deco L&H Style B mandolin peghead with a maple neck that has a curly engraved bit at the tip of the peghead.

Lyon and healy banjo mandolin