![]() ![]() This banjo appears to never have been played. Does this place it as the last in the series ending with the Vox V serial number 1969? ![]() I have a Martin Vega Vox I with serial number 1965. Thank you for sharing your banjo and its story with the BRC readership. For additional history on the Vega Martin family of long neck instruments, please enter “long neck” into the search engine on the home page of my Banjo Rehab Center website. Of note, the Vega long neck Pete Seeger Model (P.S.) banjos manufactured during the Boston era in the 1960s (each featuring bell brass Tube-a-phone tone ring, bracket band, and notched tension hoop) are valued collectors` items these days and priced in the neighborhood of $2-4K or more. An estimate of the current worth of your banjo might be around $1-1.5K depending on condition. The SS-5 listed for $285 in the 1971 VM price list. In the inaugural 1970 Vega Martin banjo catalogue, the long neck Folklore Model was nearly identical in design to its Boston era predecessor, but it had adapted the “Wonder” model metal tone ring. It featured a 10-ply maple rim, a heavy notched tension hoop, a 3-piece maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, pearl dots, a shaded mahogany finish, nickel-plated parts but the type tone ring not specified. According to the Vega catalogue of 1968 from the Needham Heights factory near Boston, MA, the long neck economy Folklore Model, which is styled after the more expensive Pete Seeger (P.S.) Model, sold for $270 without case. ![]()
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