Description

Excellent condition. SN# 428. Width at nut: 1 3/4″.
Adirondack Spruce top with beautiful grain and secondary figure. Richly colored atypical Brazilian Rosewood back and sides. Honduran Mahogany neck. Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Merrill logo inlaid at top of Brazilian Rosewood peghead overlay. Cut diamonds inlaid in fingerboard. Bone nut and cut-through saddle. Bone bridge pins with ebony dot. Bone endpin. Ivoroid bindings on top and back edge of body. Ivoroid heelcap and endwedge. Diamond volute under nut. Strap button professionally installed in heel. Top shows faint finish checking. Incidental light touchmarks here and there. No problem areas, no repairs. Nothing needing repair. Frets are original and in great shape. Tortoise celluloid pickguard. Wooden herringbone top purfling. Wooden zipper back center seam. Nickel Waverly tuners.
Big, full sound.

Here is a clip of our friend Isaac Callender demonstrating this fine instrument.