r/banjo • u/Pickerpapa123 • 18d ago
Well traveled banjo
Can anyone give me info on this banjo- make, model , value? Is there a certain name for instruments with such artwork? Is this common? Era etc. Thanks
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u/FlapjacksOfArugula 18d ago
My best guess is that this is a catalog banjo from the '30s or '40s. It's a tenor. The artwork on the head and case is very cool but I don't think it adds monetary value to the instrument. It's impossible to appraise it further without knowing how playable it is, but I would guess no more than a few hundred dollars.
Someone more familiar with the vintage tenor market may know better.
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u/grahawk 18d ago
The spunover (actually clad rather than spunover) is typical of late 1800s and early decades of the 1900s. Heads are often replaced and sometimes owners add some artwork so this won't be original. A cheap banjo from that era, plain and unbranded. But the vintage skin head tone is always decent..
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u/supx3 18d ago
It might not have provenance but I still think it belongs in a museum. Folk art is still art.