Mandolin, Orville Wright
Object Details
- Owner
- San Diego Air & Space Museum
- Manufacturer
- Washburn
- Physical Description
- Wooden ribbed bowl-back mandolin. Light colored wood body with darker wood in bowl and very dark wood neck and headstock. Faux tortiseshell inlay below the oval sound hole. The 8 tuning pegs are plastic, likely celluloid, as are white strips in ribbed bowl. Mother-of-pearl fingering marks of different designs. One round, one oval paper manufacturer's labels adhered to interior of bowl, visible through sound hole. Strung with four pairs of metal strings.
- Credit Line
- Lent by San Diego Air & Space Museum
- Inventory Number
- I20031229001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-People
- Materials
- Wood (various), metal (various), paper, plastic, mother-of-pearl
- Dimensions
- 3-D (661g): 58.7 × 19.4 × 14cm, 0.7kg (1 ft. 11 1/8 in. × 7 5/8 in. × 5 1/2 in., 1.5lb.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_I20031229001
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv921ea0a97-3df6-42e6-aa74-4d39589597ab
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