This guitar was likely built at close to the same time as the Goncalo Alves "Tigerwood" Martin and Coupa above but with three differences. It is a smaller "Terz" guitar, tuned a minor third above standard pitch, . It was built with a bird's eye maple veneer over mahogany rather than Goncoa Alves. And it has a single Martin, New York stamp in place of the Martin & Coupa label. The Terz is a small guitar, still made by Martin today, and made popular more recently by Marty Robbins.
The dimensions are:
22 1/8" scale
18 1/4" body length
11 3/8" body width
32" total length
3 3/8" depth at upper bout
3 3/4" depth at lower bout
1 3/4" nut width
2 5/16" string spacing
4 29/32" wide bridge
6" x 1 7/8" x 3" headstock
3 1/4" soundhole
Ebony pegs
Ice Cream Cone heel
Black binding
Broad foot under wide rounded neck block
Three rounded back braces at 4", 3 3/4", 3 3/4"
Three strut fan braces
Rosewood Bridge plate
While this guitar was build at approximately the same time as the Martin & Coupa, the Martin & Coupa label was used only on guitars distributed from New York by John Coupa while Martin was also selling a smaller number of guitars directly from the workshop at their new home in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania.
Profile 17 in "Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre–Civil War Innovations of C. F. Martin and His Contemporaries".
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