Here's a pleasant little find.
This is at Buffalo Brothers Guitars in Carlsbad, California. They call it a ca. 1890 Forty and Co. English Banjo, and they're asking $350, including a chipboard case.
Dale, Forty & co was apparently a piano merchant, so they probably had someone else make it for them, but it looks very nice.
They also have an 1898 Fairbanks and Cole for $850 and a Van Epps with the original internal resonator.
does anyone need a banjo?