J.R. Stewart Le Domino

I got this as kind of, part of a job lot on ebay with a decorated Supertone. As it is one of my favorite Ukuleles of all time, I was very keen on inviting this but it was listed as finishing after the Supertone, which I also wanted, and I fully expected the price to double on both of them before they was finally sold. If they had come up the other way round I would have waited, and if I didn't get this, or if the Supertone was still at a reasonable, (but that would have been hoping), price I would go for that as well. As it was the wrong way round though, and I was reluctant to spend a lot on this, and then have to spend a lot more or lose the Supertone, I tried putting a cheeky offer in to buy both of them now.

As up to this point, and it was a couple of days after the auctions started, (everyone know all of the serious bidding only happens in the last few seconds on an auction), no-one had bid on the Supertone, and I was the only bidder on this, the seller took up my offer if I was willing to be a little less, (but still I think quite), cheeky. So off went the invitations to the both of them and I wonder gleefully now how many snipes have been thwarted but the auctions ending early?

It's here now and it's is in pretty good shape. It has a small shrinkage split in the back and apart from that all of the decals are in pretty fair shape so it still has all of the "Film Noir" majesty that I associate with the Le Domino.