"Thanks for your helpful comments. I've not finally decided what to do yet. Will give it some more thought."

"If only it were a wood hoop special, I might make an unreasonably lowball offer.  "

"Nice banjo, and I paid £900 for my Boudoir Grand, but that is no guarantee of what it is worth today. Ebay with plenty of good photos and a good description would be my best guess. If you want to learn to play you will learn better on a good…"

"Maybe I mean that I'm not good enough for it, and at my age, I never will be"

"I don't understand when you write "this banjo is too good for me".  That is not a real thing. "

"I'm reckoning that this banjo is too good for me, and would be better going to someone who could realise its potential. What would be the best way to achieve that, and what would be its value?"

"I receive this one as a memento of a friend who died a few years ago, in his seventies. The banjo had belonged to his father, so a date in the 1920s sounds about right."

"Thanks. My previous banjo was open backed so I hadn't come across a resonator before, and don't really know much about the instrument"

"I believe that you mean "Resonator".  Mine came with a flat metal resonator, but I believe that resonators were extras and the banjo was normally supplied as an open back, but as Joel points out, there is a great deal that we…"

"Do you think the reverbrrator is original or added later? It seems to me to match, but would like your opinion"

"Ah!  The old "date by the tag" method has been proven to be false time and time again. The Professional tailpiece (which yours has--lyre shaped under the cover and screwed to the hoop) was introduced right at the same time as the…"

"The maker is Clifford Essex and Co, which changed in 1919 to Clifford Essex and Sons. Sadly, I don't have a handbook, though I do have what I think is the original case"

"Nice! How did you come by the year of 1919?  Do you have a sales book with it?"

"The Boudoir Grand is a great sounding banjo!"