You may also want to check out an online copy of the 1948 Hoyer catalogue here. With a split back and potentially poor condition from having been unplayed behind a sofa for the past 40 years, more like 100 to 150 Pounds.
In a good condition, a Hoyer archtop mandolinetto may fetch around 300 to 400 Pounds. They are basically scaled-down versions of their archtop jazz guitars from the same period and as the guitars are moderately collectible (not in the league of, say, Gibson or Martin), so are their mandolins. So, a Hoyer with guitar-shape body, arched top and f-shaped shoundholes is very likely to be from between, say, 1946 and, say 1965. All of the mass-market German makers of the time did so, such as Framus, Hofner, Otwin and indeed Hoyer. For some reason, in the period immediately after WWII, German makers latched onto building guitar-shaped mandolins with f-holes at a time when virtually nobody else in the world did so. In the early part of the last century, there were a lot of mandolinettos around, the most prominent of which were "Howe-Orme" in the US.
In brief, guitar-shaped mandolins are also called "mandolinetto" (no particular reason, that's just the name for them). I'm not so sure what you want to know about it, but doing a search on the cafe for "Hoyer" might be a start.
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