Here is, perhaps, the missing link in the "Howe-Orme Chain".
The label reveals it all.
The loudest best sounding mandolinetto I've heard.
Rosewood back and sides.
A lot of illuminating information here below;
including about JL Orme in Canada, the originator, evidently, of this design.
https://youtu.be/phO95fR2M0c?si=yrwXPuA35_awy9Wy





Elias Howe Company Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1898
A link to an informative site.




This instrument is For Sale: $2750.00


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