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Pine belly, bent at bridge-level and with tortoiseshell protector plate. The circular soundhole is surrounded with crude marquetry in mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, and the same crude decoration appears on the fingerboard and the edging of the belly. The neck is decorated with bands of tortoiseshell on metal foil, and of ivory and ebony. There are ten ivory frets on the fingerboard and four of ebony on the belly. The flat figure-of-eight head has eight rear pegs of boxwood for four double courses.' 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