Adapted from the sale listing

Label reads: O. Pagani & Bro 289 Bleecker Street New York-fabbricanti strumenti armonici.

Appointments include

• 3/4 size body
• 8 tuners-scroll head stock
• lyre style tail piece
• rosewood bridge with lyre inlay
• butterfly inlay pickguard and moon style pickguard
• herring bone inlay around body and rosette
• beautiful-mahagony back and sides
• spuce top
• rosewood fretboard

This is rare example of mando-bass with 8 strings and a clear reference to a normal upright bass. Unclear how it was tuned and what possible relation to other eastern European instruments (Berda for example).