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There are two types of intarsia on the double-deckers:

• Tulip shaped intarsia made of tusk in fingerboards or tail pieces:
• Intarsia made of tusk and sometimes dark hardwood such as ebony at the edges of the violin body

These types of intarsia is also present at some other baroque instruments such as viols made in Sweden. These examples of tulip shaped intarsia are known:

• The tailpiece of "Tuppen" ("the Rooster") (link)
• The fingerboard on "Karlshamnsfiolen" ("the Karlshamn fiddle") (link)
• Spele-Jockes fiddle (link)
• Violin on a painting made by Pehr Hörberg (link)
• Viol made by Johan Georg Mohte (link)

and these are the known exampels of intarsia on the edges:

• Edvin Karlssons fiddle (link)
• Viol made by Johan Georg Mohte (link)
• Double-decker made by Johan Georg Mohte (now converted to a standard violin) (link)
• Violin made by Arwid Rönnegren (link)

There are also two examples of so called rosing (rose painting) and these are:

• "Göteborgsfiolen" ("the Gothenburg fiddle"(link)
• "Tuppen" ("the Rooster") (link)