Blinged Out banjo for auction!

[Jody Stecher]

I assume this is a zither-banjo. The photos are too vague to be sure.

Can anyone see the alleged Amboyna wood?

https://www.chiswickauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-238---an-unusual...

[Jody Stecher]

I just found out how to enlarge the photos. Yes it's a zither-banjo.  The website listing British banjo makers seems to have vanished. Has anyone seen or played or heard a John Werro banjo? This banjo has a plaque bearing his name.

[Jake Glanville]

Dear Jody,
I realise your initial inquiry was about 6 months ago, but you don't seem to have had many replies. I have never played or heard a John Worro banjo, but I have seen a couple. In fact there is one for sale on Ebay at this very moment although it doesn't seem a particularly good or exciting example. Who van tell though, just looking at a picture? All I can tell you is that he lived in England and made zither-banjos in the early part of the 20th Century.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195593912497

The Vintage Banjo Makers site still seems to be going, but doesn't mention Worro.
Good Luck with your search.
Black Jake of Norwich.

[Jake Glanville]

PS. Sorry for the typo. It's John Werro, of course.
Jake.

[thereallyniceman]

Hi Jake, I added a bit of detail to your post for you.

Ian

[Jody Stecher]

Thanks, Jake!

[nick langton]

The ebay banjo looks similar to a Windsor model. 

This is a catalogue of stock from his shop: 

https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/collection/item/25358-catalo...