This is set off with the heavily gold plated hardware and a bound, pearl dot-and-diamond inlaid rosewood fingerboard. That was still quite a bit of money around 1925-6 a pearl-topped Martin 00-42 could be had for $110! It is built of attractive American walnut, with colored wood marquetry rings on the resonator edges and multiple holly wood laminations. In the mid-1920's as New York's "House of Stathopoulo" was transitioning to "Epiphone Inc" some instruments used this "Superb" branding, but the banjo is still a full-blood Epiphone! This one has later gold plating added, making it even fancier than it was originally.Įpiphone's 1920's catalogs show the Peerless priced an even $100 complete with case in the late 1920s. This charming and relatively flashy tenor banjo is a version of Epiphone's top "popular priced" model, sold under the "Superb" brand but essentially the same instrument.
1926, made in Long Island City, NY, natural finish, Laminated walnut neck, rim and resonator rosewood fingerboard, original black hard shell case.
Superb Peerless Model Tenor Banjo, made by Epiphone, c.
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