Live Auction 2346Fine Musical Instruments
GIBSON INCORPORATED
Lot 16 FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE HANK THOMPSON

GIBSON INCORPORATED

AN ELECTRIC MANDOLIN, FLORENTINE, KALAMAZOO, MI., CIRCA 1954-56

Closed8 October 2010

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GIBSON INCORPORATED
AN ELECTRIC MANDOLIN, FLORENTINE, KALAMAZOO, MI., CIRCA 1954-56
The headstock inlaid Gibson, length of body: 12 9/16 in. (31.9 cm) with original case (2)

Specialist note

By 1954 The Brazos Valley Boys were performing with two fiddlers, Bob White and Amos Hendrick. It can be assumed that either White or Hendrick may have doubled on mandolin for some selected numbers performed by the Brazos Valley Boys.