Guitar neck, paired with a teardrop shaped "mandolin" body with a 10" bout. Flamed Rosewood back and sides, with plain spruce top, original moveable bridge, and tailpiece which bears a WM Gerke 1888 patent stamp, original patent friction tuners, ivoroid peghead medallion present with some wear on face. The mahogany neck has a soft c profile with a 24" scale rosewood fingerboard with 1-3/4" wide bone nut; original frets present with moderate pitting, forward bow and raising of fingerboard extension. Finish appears to have been stripped, and several back cracks were reglued. "August Pollman was an instrument distributor in the 1890's and his catalog included both regular five-string banjos and mandoline-banjos such as this one. These instruments were believed to have been made for Pollman by Pehr Anderberg, a Swedish-born guitar maker." From BillsBanjos.com