Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011

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Resonator guitar (style O)

1935
National String Instrument Corporation
Length: 96.5 cm (38 in.)
Brass, nickel silver, wood

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: Los Angeles, California, United States

Accession number: 2010.615

Provenance/Ownership History: 1935, sold by Roger Morse, Brockton, Massachusetts, to his student, Bernice Metta, Norwood, Massachusetts; by 2010, by descent to her son, Bill Metta, Jr., Norwood, Massachusetts; 2010, sold by Metta to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 2010)

Alice B. Bartlett Fund and funds donated by Davis Noble