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Levi Brown Banjo c. 1858

 



Price: $3800



26 inch scale length cherry neck with maple inlay on a rosewood fingerboard

Waverly geared tuners with a rosewood tailpiece

The rosewood veneer rim is 12" DIA x 3.25" deep.

 

Fitted hard-shell case...add $150
Natural skin head.........add $100
 

 

 





Rhiannon Giddens "Julie"

Levi Brown was a contemporary of William E. Boucher Jr. also making banjos in  Baltimore, Maryland in the mid 19th Century.



The brass shield brackets, hooks and nuts are copied from the original L. Brown banjo in the collection of
Stan Werbin