Vintage Lyon & Healy Jupiter Parlor Guitar 1900's +case

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up for grabs again since I had about 12 peeps making offers to buy it after the auction closed is an old vintage stamped Jupiter then below that it has stamped "The 16 Bar" this parlor guitar was made in the early 1900's by Lyon & Healy.They went of business around 1920. I have had this guitar for awhile and its about time to get rid of some guitars. This Guitar is complete and all wood is tight no loose braces tops and sides are sound. It has several cracks in the top and a few check type cracks on the back but were glued and braced several years back by local guitar luither when he fixed and small upper bout seperation($200) .Its not pretty but action at 12 fret is less then .25" or 1/4" and unlike many parlor guitars this one plays really well. Neck is solid although interesting point it has a V neck, and label that says T.B.Co. Sterling and looks to have installed at some point(shadow at heel of neck on body of maybe another neck) but is done pretty good and solid. I have had this guitar about 10 years and no neck issues, it is real straight. I have always put nylon folk strings on it because of age and it has a slant type top bracing instead of X bracing so not sure about steel strings.It could use a new saddle (this one is wide enough but would look better with longer one)but usually thats a preference thing for the type of read more

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