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| Specifications: |
| 8-string Mandolin. |
| Arched top & back. |
| Body width: 260 mm. |
| Hand carved top. |
| Spruce top with undetermined bracing. |
| Flame maple back & sides. |
| Single-bound top with unbound f-holes. |
| Single-bound back. |
| Unbound pickguard. |
| Unbound headstock. |
| Mahogany neck with non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod. |
| Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl dot inlay. |
| Nickel plated tuners. |
| Sunburst finish. |
| Ten year warranty. |
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| Introduced: Circa 1937 |
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| Earliest known example: 107377 (1937) |
| 114173 (1938) |
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| Circa 1942: |
| Walnut or maple back & sides. |
| Perloid fingerboard inlay. |
| Changed tailpiece design. |
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| 133817 (1942) |
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| Circa 1943: |
| Walnut fingerboard. |
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| 139692 (1943) |
| 148548 (1944) |
| 149634 (1944) |
| 1xxxxx (1946) |
| 1754xx (1946) - (repro pickguard) |
| 186116 (1947 - 330) |
| 188797 (1947) |
| Latest known example: 190649 (1947) |
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| Circa 1947: |
| Replaced by |
| Model 42 Master. |
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