Checklist of Mandolins by Gibson

Lyre-Mandolin

NMM 12000.  Lyre-mandolin by Orville Gibson, Kalamazoo, ca. 1898-1902.  Tom and Cindy Lillibridge Fund, 2006.

Mandolins

NMM 14395.  Mandolin by Orville Gibson, Kalamazoo, 1903.  Style F-2 Artist.  André P. and Kay Marcum Larson Fund, 2009.

NMM 6192.  Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1904.  Style A-4.  Serial number 3121.  Purchase funds gift of Norma and Joseph M. McFadden, Houston, Texas, 1998.

NMM 10052.  Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1904.  Style F-3.  Serial number 3617.  Board of Trustees, 2001.

NMM 11715.  Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1906.  Style A.  Serial number 5381.  Fordyce and Frances R. Fox Collection, 2006.

NMM 6070.  Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1914.  Style F-4, Artist’s Model.  Serial number 17800.  Ex colls.:  Neal Penner, Enid, Oklahoma; Pete Wagener, Savage, Minnesota; Bruce Barton, Vermillion.  Board of Trustees, 1997.

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NMM 4085.  Mandolin by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1917.  Style A-4.  Serial number 35158.  Gift of Doug Douglas, Miles City, Montana, 1986.

NMM 10868.  Mandolin by Gibson, Inc., Kalamazoo, 1937.  Century model A-C (Century of Progress).  Factory Order Number 270C 8.  John R. Barmeyer Collection, 2005.

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NMM 14494.  Mandolin by Gibson, Inc., Kalamazoo, 1964 or 1968.  Style A-40N.  Serial number 507973.  Gift of Patty Looman, Star City, West Virginia, 2010.

Mandola

NMM 6098.  Mandola by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1917.  Style H-4, Artist’s Model.  Serial number 33609.  Ex coll.:  Curtis Teague and Loretta Simonet, Minneapolis.  Purchase funds gift of Margaret Ann Everist, Sioux City, Iowa, 1997.

Mando-cellos

NMM 6085.  Mando-cello by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1914.  Style K-2.  Serial number 17984.  Ex colls.:  Neal Penner, Enid, Oklahoma; Pete Wagener, Savage, Minnesota; Curtis Teague and Loretta Simonet, Minneapolis.  Board of Trustees, 1997.

NMM 6086.  Mando-cello by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1924.  Style K-4, Artist’s Model.  Serial number 76996.  Ex colls.:  Neal Penner, Enid, Oklahoma; Pete Wagener, Savage, Minnesota.  Board of Trustees, 1997.

Mando-basses

NMM 2883.  Mando-bass by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, 1916.  Style J.  Serial number 25936.  Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979.

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NMM 5910.  Mando-bass by Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo, ca. 1923-1924.  Style J.  Serial number 76525 or 74563 (number faded).  Arne B. Larson Estate, 1988.

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