Standing 156 cm high, spreading 77 cm across the belly, and fitted with strap buttons (???!!!), this mandobass dwarfs its owner, Hilary James.

She came across it secondhand in a mandobass shop that inexplicably went out of business soon after it opened - such is the lamentable state of the British economy!!

It bears a label 'Robin Greenwood', a maker from Bournmouth, England