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Archlute.png Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640Map showing the first settlements made on the Eastern coast of North AmericaThumbnailsMousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640

Archlute
Wood, inlaid with ivory and tortoise-shell, engraved. Two sets of tuning pegs, the lower containing fourteen, and the higher, ten.

On the middle of the neck is an ovl plate of mother-of-pearl, bering the German inscription, Gott der Herr ist Sonne und Schield ("God, the Lord, is sun and shield.") About 1700