Bowl style, neopolitan mandolin w/Brazilian rosewood back w/35 ribs. Fancy Brazilian rosewood skirt which is bound in ivory. The spruce top as well as the soundhole features a wide boarder of colorful abalone. The inlaid tortoise pickguard features a pearl vine. Several tastefully engraved inlays in fingerboard & peghead. A fine instrument from one of the best makers at the turn of the century.