United States: Illinois, Chicago Measurements As depicted in an 1898-99 Lyon & Healy catalog, this three-quarter size ”Washburn” model guitar, item number 123-3/4, is described: “Rosewood, with Inlaid and Celluloid-Bound Edges, Top and Bottom Handsomely Colored Wood Inlaying around Sound-Hole Celluloid-Bound Finger-Board Beautiful Inlaid Stripe down the Back Best Quality Ebony Finger-Board Celluloid-Bound with Engraved Pearl Position Marks Ebony Bridge Fine Quality Patent Head Nickel-Plated.” This guitar sold for $29.40 in 1898. The company also made musical instruments but is best known as a manufacturer of harps. Lyon & Healy quickly expanded as a retail distributor for musical instruments. The company was founded in 1864 by George Washburn Lyon and Patrick Joseph Healy as a music publications shop for the Boston Company of Oliver Ditson. Established in 1864, Lyon & Healy grew to be one of the largest distributors and makers of musical instruments in American History. from the guide Washburn Prewar Device Designs: Electric guitars, Mandolins. This guitar, serial #140926, was made by Lyon & Healy of Chicago, Illinois around 1900-1905. Its a 1920s Lyon Healy 4 thread tenor banjo, like the one that had been. Playing lately: 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - 83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca.
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