This can easily hold pace with most modern-sized fan-braced classicals. It's got a strong, quite classical voice, with super response (well I expected that - lightly ladder braced with tapered braces) and impressively balanced and sweet tone.
I found a parts-bin 'rescue' pin bridge with a bone saddle, installed it, reset the neck and shimmed the joint for a better fit (and also removing that screw and installing a bolt in its place, for more reinforcement), put all the frets back in order and reglued much of the tangled fretboard extension, gave it a fret dress, cleaned the guitar up a bunch, reglued an open (previously 'repaired') side crack. Yikes! Nevertheless, it turned out lovely. Clearly, Lyon & Healy was making fretted string instruments in the 1880s, with Washburn (guitars, mandolins, banjos, and zithers) as their premier line. When I got it, the neck was quite loose and had a giant brass screw through it passing into the interior, the original pin bridge had been removed and replaced with a c.1900s brass tailpiece and ebony floating bridge (presumably for steel stringing) and the fretboard was in pieces and falling everywhere.
late 1880s or early 1890s, and larger than normal for the time, as it's a O-size 13' lower bout 'concert' sized guitar. This poor, poor guitar! It looks to me like a Lyon & Healy-built gut-strung guitar, probably c.