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Specifications: |
8-string Mandolin. |
Flat back. |
Body width: 260 mm. |
Spruce top with undetermined bracing. |
Walnut or mahogany back & sides. |
4-ply bound top. |
Single-bound back. |
Unbound pickguard. |
Unbound headstock. |
Mahogany neck. |
Unbound rosewood fingerboard with pearloid dot inlay. |
Nickel plated tuners. |
Natural finish. |
One year warranty. |
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Introduced: ca 1947 |
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Earliest known example: 195491 (1948) |
200442 (1948) |
202907 (1948) |
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ca 1949: |
Mahogany back & sides. |
Large bridge thumbwheels. |
Changed tuner design with white plastic buttons. |
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2910xx (1949) |
262970 (1951) |
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ca 1955: |
Renamed Model 44. |
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338335 (1956) |
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ca 1957: |
Changed tuner design with white straight-sided plastic buttons. |
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ca 1960: |
Tuners with white oval plastic buttons. |
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Latest known example: 427305 (1962) |
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