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| Specifications: |
| 8-string Mandolin. |
| Arched top & back. |
| Body width: 260 mm. |
| Hand carved top & back. |
| Spruce top with undetermined bracing. |
| Flame maple back & sides. |
| Triple-bound top with unbound f-holes. |
| Single-bound back. |
| Triple-bound pickguard. |
| Single-bound headstock. |
| Flame maple neck with violin-style volute and non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod. |
| Single-bound ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl block inlay. |
| Tuners with wheel screw and oval metal buttons. |
| Nickel plated hardware. |
| Sunburst finish. |
| Ten year warranty. |
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| Introduced: Circa 1937 |
| as a replacement for Model 380. |
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| Earliest known example: 106550 (1937) |
| 112476 (1938) |
| 114786 (1939) |
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| Circa 1942: |
| Walnut or flame maple back & sides. |
| Walnut neck. |
| Changed tailpiece design. |
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| Circa 1943: |
| Perloid inlay in headstock and fingerboard. |
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| 142661 (1943) |
| 159649 (1945) |
| 1640xx (1945) |
| 168005 (1946) |
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| Circa 1946: |
| Tuners with no wheel screw. |
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| 173786 (1946) - (changed bridge) |
| 174608 (1946) |
| 190046 (1947) |
| 191207 (1947) |
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| Circa 1947: |
| Replaced by |
| Model 40 Aristokrat. |
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| 195513 (1948) |
| Latest known example: 203172 (1948) |
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