here to check out our feedbacks on eBay
| # 2222 | German | Spruce top, flamed maple back and sides, enclosed machine heads with ivory tuners, stained fruitwood finger board with one raised zero fret and 28 raised metal frets, in non original viola case, total length 60.5 cm, scale 36.8 cm, width 24.5 cm, depth 4 cm, nut 4 cm. For Sale: Now |
 |
||
| US$ 1'200.00 SOLD |
Viola or Streich Zither, Cittern around 1880 | ||||
| # 2225 | Guitar Zither | Bearing the original label: Guitar Zither made in Germany around 1900. Stained fruitwood top, pine back and sides, 27 strings with metal pegs, total length 41.3 cm, scale of longest string 33.5 cm, scale of shortest string 15.2 cm, width 23.3 cm, depth 3.4 cm. For Sale: Now |
 |
||
| US$ 500.00 | Terz Zither or Child's Cittern around 1900 | ||||
| # 2251 | Georg Tiefenbrunner, Germany | A rare concert cittern bearing the original label: Georg Tiefenbrunner, Saiten Instrumentenmacher in Munchen 1849. Total length 22 inches, comes with a nice original wooden case lined with leather, lock in working condition with original key. Some repaired cracks in the front and back. For sale: NOW |
 |
||
| US$ 1'500.00 | Konzert Zither or Concert Cittern dated 1849 | ||||
| # 2226 | Anonymous | A Kinder Zither or Child's Cittern from around the 1880s. Curly maple top with some painted flower decorations and rosewood edging, top has a surface crack (24 cm), curly maple back with rosewood edges, sides with ivory or bone inserts with painted emblame, 10 brass pegs, total length 37.8 cm, width 17.8 cm, depth 2.6 cm. For Sale: Now |
 |
||
| US$ 390.00 | Kinder Zither or Child's Cittern around 1880 | ||||
| # 2227 | Anonymous | Stained fruitwood top back and sides, stained fruitwood peg head for five pegs, one broken off, 2 melody strings plus 3 other strings, 14 frets, total length 49 cm, scale 38.2 cm, width 7.5 cm, depth 2.6 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 750.00 SOLD |
Epinet de Vosques around 1850 | ||||
| # 2232 | Frz. Schandl, Mittenwald | Bearing the original label: Frz. Schandl, Zither- & Saitenfabrik, Mittenwald a. d. Jsar (Bayern). Rosewood or stained fruitwood top, ebonized spruce back and sides, 5 melody strings with enclosed tuners and ivory knobs, 27 other strings with steel pegs, stained fruitwood finger board with one raised zero fret and 29 raised steel frets, stained fruit wood bridge, total length 57 cm, scale 41.4 cm, width 29 cm, depth 2.8 cm. For Sale: Now |
 |
||
| US$ 350.00 | Konzert Zither or Concert Cittern around 1890 | ||||
| # 2234 | Royal Letters Patent | Bearing the original label and directions to play on the inside of the case: Patent Zither Violina Registered August 6th, 1879, also stamped on the top of the cittern serial number 828 by Royal Letters Patent. It seems to be made of fruitwood with probably stained fruit wood finger board, bone zero fret, 29 bone frets, bridge is broken in half, this instrument is played with a bow, in original wooden box, total length 60.7 cm, scale 50 cm, width 6.9 cm, depth 3.5 cm. For Sale: Now |
 |
||
| US$ 500.00 SOLD |
Violina Zither or Cittern around 1880 | ||||
| # 2253 | Trümpi, Glarus, Switzerland | To follow..... In Transit |
 |
||
| US$ | Cittern dated 1894 | ||||
| # 2254 | Iohan Ver???, Schys | To follow..... In Transit |
 |
||
| US$ | Halszither, Neck Cittern dated 1759 or 1750 | ||||
| # 2243 | Joao Miguel Andrade | Bearing the original label: Joao Miguel Andrade, Fabrica e Armazem de Instrumentos de Corda, Guitarras Violins braguezas Cavacos, Lisboa, Rua nova de Trinidade, Sole Agents for Great Briten and Colonies, Alban Voigt & Co., 14 Edmund Place, London E. C.. Spruce top in good condition with ebony and fruitwood purfling, Brazilian rosewood back with two repaired cracks (30 cm, 6 cm), Brazilian rosewood sides with some small repairs but firm with two sound holes on the sides, neck and scroll in one piece with enclosed metal machineheads for 12 strings, straight ebony finger board with ivory nut and 17 brass frets in good condition, ivory and ebony bridge, this instrument is good to play and the action is set how it should be, total length 70 cm, scale 44 cm, width 28.7 cm, depth at the neck joint 6 cm, depth at the bottom 7.8 cm, nut 4.3 cm. For Sale: Now |
  |
||
| US$ 1'500.00 SOLD |
Fado cittern or guitar 1880s | ||||
| # 2218 | Hermann Trapp, Germany | Bearing the original label of: Saiten & Musikinstrumenten Fabrik, Hermann Trapp. Wildstein a. Eger in Böhmen, also bearing a stamp in the second sound hole: D. R. Patent No 86768, K. K. Öster Patent No 4060/45, G. M. Sch. In allen Staaten. Rosewood top inscribed in gold: Trapp Zittern, two fancy sound holes with nice bindings, underneath the second sound hole is an angled second sound board bearing the same stamp. The back made from ebonized spruce with a sound hole showing the second sound board about 1 cm away from the back, rosewood sides with one sound hole, some missing purfling at the top 2 cm, 5 melody strings with enclosed tuners and fancy ivory knobs, 33 sympathetic strings with steel pegs, finger board probably stained fruit wood with 29 raised frets, probably stained fruit wood bridge with some missing teeth, total length 56 cm, scale 41.4 cm, width 32.7 cm, depth 4.4 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 2'500.00 SOLD |
Double Top Cittern 1890s | ||||
| # 2214 | Ignaz Simon | Bearing the original label of: Ignaz Simon, Saiten u. Instrumentenmacher in Haidhausen bei München 1850. Flamed maple top in good condition no cracks, spruce back, stained fruitwood sides, stained hard wood scroll, fingerboard, bridge and saddle, 4 melody strings, 22 sympathetic strings, 26 steel frets, total length 51.4 cm, scale 38 cm, width 27.4 cm, depth 2.2 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 2'500.00 SOLD |
Schlag Zither or Cittern dated 1850 | ||||
| # 2201 | Joseph Rieger | Bearing the original handwritten label: Joseph Rieger, Geigenmacher in Mittenwald, an der Iser bei Tihrol. From around 1810, spruce top and back in very good condition, the two sound holes are covered with decorative parchment edgings, maple sides and scroll, four melody strings plus 13 other strings, fingerboard with fourteen frets, total length 49 cm, scale 33.8 cm, width 20.2 cm, depth 3.5 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 10'000.00 SOLD |
German Zither around 1810 | ||||
| # 2210 | Label not readable | Bearing a label inside with the date of 1663 other wise not readable. Pine top with some barely visible old worm runs and cracks that have been restored, rosette of two toned parchment, painted purfling on top and back, back and sides of some fruitwood with some worm runs in the side, neck and peg head made of fruitwood, scroll of a carved animal head, 9 pegs probably original, stained fruitwood finger board with bone nut and 17 brass frets, stained fruitwood bridge, total length 72.6 cm, scale 43 cm, width 24 cm, depth neck joint 5.8 cm, depth bottom 3.9 cm, nut 4.4 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 8'000.00 SOLD |
South German Hals Zither dated 1663 | ||||
| # 2233 | A. F. Kochendorfer, Stuttgart | Bearing the original label: Saiten & Instrumenten Fabrik, A. F. Kochendorfer, Stuttgart, also stamped at the top of the fingerboard: A. F. Kochendorfer, Stuttgart. Rosewood top, spruce back and sides, ebony scroll with carved flower decoration, 5 melody strings with enclosed tuners with ivory knobs, 30 other strings and metal pegs, ebony finger board with one raised zero fret and 29 raised frets, ebony bridge with some missing teeth, including original wooden case, total length 59 cm, scale 41.6 cm, width 32.7 cm, depth 3.1 cm |  |
||
| US$ 750.00 SOLD |
Harfen Zither or Harp Cittern | ||||
| # 2223 | F. & R. Enders | Comes with a photocopy of the sales brochure which shows the exact picture of the instrument. Spruce top with two repaired cracks (9 cm, 10 cm), flamed maple back and sides, enclosed machine heads with ivory tuners, stained fruitwood finger board with one raised zero fret and 29 raised metal frets, in original wooden coffin case, total length 60.5 cm, scale 39 cm, width 27.7 cm, depth 4 cm, nut 6 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 1'500.00 SOLD |
Streich or String Melodeon around 1890 | ||||
| # 2228 | Konzert Harfen Zither | Rosewood top, spruce back, rosewood sides, very decorative ebonized scroll and pillar, 5 melody strings with enclosed tuners and 5 ivory knobs, 33 other strings with steel pegs, stained fruitwood finger board with one raised zero fret and 29 raised frets, fancy stained fruitwood tail piece and bridge with a cover, total length 72 cm, scale 42.2 cm, width 38 cm, depth 3 cm. |  |
||
| US$ 1'000.00 SOLD |
Konzert Harfen Zither or Concert Harp Cittern around 1890 | ||||
| # 2249 | Th. Heym, Suhl, Germany | Interesting late Thuringer Wald Cittern or Halszither signed on the tailpiece: Th. Heym Suhl Thuringer Wald. In original condition, 4 frets missing, repair to the side, open crack in the top, 14 strings, high action but room to come down. Measurements: - total length 81 cm - scale 41 cm - body length 35 cm - middle bout 29 cm - lowest rim 8 cm - highest rim 8 cm - nut 4,5cm |   |
||
| US$ 600.00 SOLD |
Thuringer Wald Cittern, 1890s | ||||
| # 235 | Müller's Erato-Harfe, Germany | Giant antique Autoharp in the shape of an grandpiano. Müller's Erato-Harfe, Patentiert in allen Bundes Staaten, D.R.P. No 75089. 12 keys each changeable 3 times and 1 key changes from diminshed to augmented. 37 discant strings and 6 bass strings.Total length 29 inches and 19 inches wide. Good condition, no cracks, body is straight. |  |
||
| US$ 800.00 SOLD |
38 Chords, 1920s | ||||
| # 2252 | Meinel & Herold, Germany | A good cittern with a nice picture on the top, bearing the original label: Meinel & Herold Klingenthal. Total length 26 inches, scale 16 1/2 inches, one hairline crack in the back, some loose bindings, 1 inch of binding in the top missing, comes with original wooden case and string tuning tool. |  |
||
| US$ 250.00 SOLD |
Konzert Harfen Zither or Concert Harp Cittern 1880s | ||||
Homepage
