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Lap steel guitar (New Yorker model)
Lap steel guitar (New Yorker model)

Lap steel guitar (New Yorker model)

Valco (National brand) (American)
Victor Smith (American)
1947
Object PlaceChicago, Illinois, United States
Medium/TechniqueWood, plastic
DimensionsLength 73.2 cm, diameter 17.8 cm (Length 28 13/16 in., diameter 7 in.)
Credit LineGift of Brian Fischer
Accession number2009.2223
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
ProvenanceAround 1990, sold at a guitar show, Dallas, Texas, to Brian Fischer, Dover, New Hampshire; 2009, gift of Fischer to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 25, 2009)
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