?? just so many ways to go with this

I wish the pic was higher res. I want to read all the things written on the smaller cans.

Well, many banjo players hang stuff from the peghead, especially in the OLD OLD days. Ribbons used to be popular, the color of the ribbon indicating the banjo's open tuning -- for banjoists who kept multiple instruments on stage to get different tunings very quickly (rather then retuning). John Hartford used ribbons on his fiddle pegheads for this reason.

It could be something a child or grandchild made for their parent/grandparent.

When I was a teenager starting to play, there used to be an advertised synthetic upholstery material called "Naugahyde", and the company had a little monster-like mascot called "The Nauga". Lots of banjo and guitar straps used to be made out of relatively cheap Naugahyde. I had a little stuffed Nauga (made out of Naugahyde) hanging from my banjo peghead. So did the guy who played guitar with us. I think my dad even had one on his guitar. (My mom and sister used to crank out a variety of sewn goods in those days.)

We ditched the Nauga, and Naugahyde straps, when we started to hear reports of them leaking plasticizer into guitar finish and leaving imprints of the stamped patterns in the Naugahyde

I have known a few guys who had car "freshener" hangers on their pegheads. Like the little cardboard trees you hang from the rear view mirror.

A dollar store Christmas pine cone with a holly berry hung from my banjo headstock

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I wish the pic was higher res. I want to read all the things written on the smaller cans.

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https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/photos/large/48/4821-12117181362018.jpg

This one is about 2.5x better.
 

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Originally posted by localhost

I wish the pic was higher res. I want to read all the things written on the smaller cans.

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https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/photos/large/48/4821-12117181362018.jpg

This one is about 2.5x better.
 

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Thanks!

mine was a cigarette

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mine was a cigarette

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I never smoked, so I had to come up with something else.

One of these lucky charm puppets, hanging from the 2nd string tuner shaft:

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mine was a cigarette

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I never smoked, so I had to come up with something else.

One of these lucky charm puppets, hanging from the 2nd string tuner shaft:

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do you still have that Iida banjo  ?

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mine was a cigarette

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I never smoked, so I had to come up with something else.

One of these lucky charm puppets, hanging from the 2nd string tuner shaft:

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do you still have that Iida banjo  ?

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Yes, but I retired it as my main banjo after acquiring the  RB-1 in 1994.  Before, in 1980, I had Bill Sullivan making me a replacement maple rim to my specs. It turned out being a drop in... With Sullivan's flathead ring and a tension hoop the banjo became twice the banjo it was before..

Sometimes it comes out of the case when there is a srudent with a bottle cap...

The charm is still with it.