It has the Post and Durkee butterfly shoes which they made for Dobson banjos, so I'm guessing it's probably a Dobson which was later absorbed by a Lyon and Healy. The head diameter is 11 in the scale length 24 and 1/2 in. The inside of the rim is inscribed with the name of a person who died in 1896. As one can see by the picture of the back of the neck, there have been some primitive repairs done on it, but then the end result is fine. There are no problems with the playability of the neck. I reset the neck angle by adding an ebony piece to the tailpiece block, which is easily removable since it's not glued to the original dowel stick. The banjo plays good, in double C tuning all the way up to the highest note which is a C. The pegs work fine even though they're not geared, the lower tension Nylon strings hold fine with non geared pegs. I replaced the original head which had 1914 written on it.
