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This actually came yesterday evening after waiting the entire day for FedEx, afraid to leave the front of my house as I had to sign for it.
It's a wood body National Triolian tenor guitar from 1928. This would be one of the scarce models which used the neck from the more expensive
German silver tenor guitars. These polychrome Triolian guitars were completely painted, so underneath all the paint is a mahogany neck with
binding and an ebony fretboard. Under the sickly olive paint the original color should match the cover plate and fretboard, but it would be
expected to have a violet colored shading at the edges of the body and flower decals on the front and back. However, it appears to have silver paint
under the later olive drab. When it's taken apart I may have a better idea of the original paint scheme on this particular guitar. Only a few of the
early tenors had the screened cover plates before changing to the "sieve" pattern that were still used when they started making the bodies in steel.
The first two photos are of one of the other earliest version wood bodies from the Notecannons site--aftermarket tailpiece and all the paint stripped from the cover plate.
The later bodies were more mustard yellow with blue and red overspray blotches.
The repaint on mine is more olive in person. They even painted over the pearl dot markers!
It's a wood body National Triolian tenor guitar from 1928. This would be one of the scarce models which used the neck from the more expensive
German silver tenor guitars. These polychrome Triolian guitars were completely painted, so underneath all the paint is a mahogany neck with
binding and an ebony fretboard. Under the sickly olive paint the original color should match the cover plate and fretboard, but it would be
expected to have a violet colored shading at the edges of the body and flower decals on the front and back. However, it appears to have silver paint
under the later olive drab. When it's taken apart I may have a better idea of the original paint scheme on this particular guitar. Only a few of the
early tenors had the screened cover plates before changing to the "sieve" pattern that were still used when they started making the bodies in steel.
The first two photos are of one of the other earliest version wood bodies from the Notecannons site--aftermarket tailpiece and all the paint stripped from the cover plate.
The later bodies were more mustard yellow with blue and red overspray blotches.
The repaint on mine is more olive in person. They even painted over the pearl dot markers!
