Vintage Antique 1930’s Blue Comet 8 String Mandolin Stringed Music Instrument

Vintage Antique 1930’s Blue Comet 8 String Mandolin Stringed Music Instrument. Hey vintage string instrument collectors; this 1930’s Blue Comet Resonator Mandolin is a looker and sounds amazing! This A Style mandolin is a 74+ year old beauty with very little wear. All parts are tight, there is still gloss on the wood. Blue Comet headstock graphic has only a few stops missing. There is light scuffing and scratches but no major condition issues to speak of. Blue Comet was a brand from Peter Sorkin of NYC- and he had others- Strad-O-Lin is the most famous- but there is also Santacilla and Premier, MultiVox and Stadium- iThe company that made the mandolin- and many other instruments Sorkin sold back then, was United of New Jersey which began making instruments in about 1940 and continued into the 70s. It is reckoned that United was formed from the remnants of the former Oscar Schmidt Company- certainly one of its directors had bought OS in the mid-30s before folding it in 1939 and starting United.