1926 Lyon & Healy / Washburn Washburn 5202

 

  • SOLD!

  • Year: 1926
  • Manufacturer: Lyon & Healy / Washburn
  • Model: Washburn 5202
  • Case: Hard
  • Color: Natural
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Description: Not for sale.
    Show and tell only.
    ca 1926 Lyon & Healy manufactured Washburn Model 5202 Concert size Parlor Guitar. Gorgeous Brazilian rosewood back and sides bound with white celluloid with white celluloid inlaid back strip, Spruce top with cedar neck, freshly French polished by New Hampshire luthier Pat Diburro. Flawless neck set and set up. Never touched, fully intact bracing. Elegant pearl inlaid extremely rare “sailor’s cap” headstock with “ears” only seen on 1926 models. Magnificent engraved original tuners and “smile bridge” with ivory saddle. 18 fret Ebony fingerboard. Sound hole bound with three sets of black/white rings. MOP dot fret markers at 5,7,10 and12. Strung with Extra Light Phosphor Bronze. Lower Bout = 13" Nut Width = 1 13/16" (nut appears to be ivory) Lyon & Healy “Makers” impressed ink stamped inside. This guitar shows very nicely aged spruce top which has some dings and scrapes but only ancient and stable hide glued hairlines on the lower bout top. No other evidence of inside repairs what-so-ever. Stunning finger picker. This guitar truly sings the songs of the roaring twenties era! See it played.