613 :: French five double course guitar, probably by Edmond Saunier, Paris, circa 1770, the head with ebony face and shaped outline bearing ten ebony pegs, the back of head and neck inlaid with parallel ebony stringing, the ebony fingerboard with tied frets and two additional ebony frets, the back and sides inlaid with ebony parallel lines, the spruce top with a continuous band of alternating boxwood and ebony inlay to the edges and sound hole, the sound hole with inset fretwork rose, in an ebonised wooden case *Bearing two restoration labels to the inner back inscribed Reparee par Adouard Foelisch, Luthier á Lausanne, the second inscribed Restored by Martin Bowers, 1975 **See 'La Chitarra, Quattro Secoli di Capolavori' page 136-9 for similar examples by this maker Overall length 36 1/2", 92.7cm

 
French five double course guitar, probably by Edmond Saunier, Paris, circa 1770, the head with ebony face and shaped outline bearing ten ebony pegs, the back of head and neck inlaid with parallel ebony stringing, the ebony fingerboard with tied frets and two additional ebony frets, the back and sides inlaid with ebony parallel lines, the spruce top with a continuous band of alternating boxwood and ebony inlay to the edges and sound hole, the sound hole with inset fretwork rose, in an ebonised wooden case *Bearing two restoration labels to the inner back inscribed Reparee par Adouard Foelisch, Luthier á Lausanne, the second inscribed Restored by Martin Bowers, 1975 **See 'La Chitarra, Quattro Secoli di Capolavori' page 136-9 for similar examples by this maker Overall length 36 1/2", 92.7cm; string length 25 1/8", 63.8cm

Estimate: £3000-5000

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Sale Date: 1st January 1970
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