MARTIN MODEL 2-44 Description
- Size 2 body, spruce top, Brazilian rosewood back and sides, round soundhole with three ring rosette (5/9/5 grouping), six-ply top binding with outer ivoroid layer, three-ply back binding with outer ivoroid layer, wide white backstripe surrounded by smaller black and white lines, ebony ivoroid-bound fingerboard with no inlays, ivoroid-bound headstock with "Soloist" or "Olcott-Bickford Artist Model" inlaid, total production of 4 instruments, mfg. 1930 only.
These guitars were specially built for performer Vahdah Olcott-Bickford.