D'Angelico Deluxe Two Point Mandolin 1942, Sunburst

Archtop guitars brought John D'Angelico great fame as the finest archtop guitar builder in the history of the instrument. His mandolins, however, are less talked about, even though they are worthy of the same attention.

D'Angelico's ledger books offer only a few clues to his mandolin activity. While he made the first entry for a guitar in 1952, he didn't enter his first mandolin In the books until 1940, it was number 125. Barlier three-digit numbers have turned up, so he may have started numbering mandolins with 101 and it is unknown how many unnumbered ones he might have made. There are 49 mandolins listed in D'Angelicos ledgors.

To make matters more difticult, D'Angelico did not record any mandolin model names. D'Angelico's ledgers show sixteen are called "Scroll", twenty-two are called "Plain", and two are called "Good". Three are entered with a date but with no notation as to the style. According to the original receipt for this mandolin it Is listed as a "deluxe". Some of them do have a violin-style scrolled peghead, so D'Angelico's "Scroll" model almost surely refers to the scrolled pegboad.

This Scrolled model Mandolin & 149 was purchased new on June 12h, 1942 by Carlo Cusanelli at a cost of $75 dollars, He was a professional Musician who played on the radio and was part of a group called the Treble Clofs. 

The tuners have been changed and pickguard was removed. Comes with OHC