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The sale gives this a Busato provenance sans label (probably due to the tuning machines and tailpiece among other things), but also mentions it could have been a Sonora (albeit w/o marque au fer). Either way, it seems to be in nice shape if the two top cracks really are stable. Player seems to have no problem playability-wise.
I'm not sure to whom we should attribute this old guitar, looks like some quality purfling & inlay work and a nice figured back.
French, 1950's and a "Sonora" marqué-au-fer on the headstock...
<edit> though it does share distinct similarities with M. Dregni's mystery Sonora, posted earlier in this thread:
The players name is Smeily Adler :)
Edit: sorry for this second erratic post here, i blame it to my phone (or my clunky fingers?)
My recently acquired 1940s (?) Jose Sanchez (= early 'clef ' Sonora) has its new Schaller tuners and some fingerboard/frets work completed and is playing rather nicely.
[ I might do some more work to it, "later" ]
The score is currently France 2 😥, Italy 4 😀