Fraulini
Brand Fraulini
Type Francesca
Year 2006
Serial number -
Additional info This is an acoustic 12-string guitar made in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Labelled internally: FRAULINI / GUITARS / MADE IN AMERICA MODEL FRANCESCA, ink stamped at the neck block F43, and signed internally on the top TODD CAMBIO / DECEMBER 12 / 2006, of a natural finish.
 

See here a closeup from the headstock.

Mark Knopfler purchased this hand-built
guitar from luthier Todd Cambio of Fraulini Guitars in 2007. Knopfler opted for the Francesca model - a copy of the Stella Auditorium 12-string guitar made by the Oscar Schmidt Company and played by such blues greats as Leadbelly and Blind Willie McTell.

 

This guitar was auctioned at Christie's in London on 31st January 2024. It was sold for 18.900 Pounds.

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