拍品的狀況可能存在極大差異，而由於其性質使然，拍品難以處於完美無瑕的狀態。拍品均以拍賣時的狀況出售。

There are five repaired back cracks extending up from the bottom edge. One crack extends the full length of the back and has been re-enforced internally with a rosewood cleat running the length of the crack.
The bridge plate is original, but the bridge is not original and has been replaced with an oversized belly bridge. The fingerboard is not original. The tuners are of the period but not original to this guitar. There are three compression divots on the back of the neck likely formed from a capo which have been filled and retouched with varnish. The neck has likely been over polished. There is an area of wear to the top on the treble side of the sound hole. The area has been filled and over varnished.

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