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Levin Model 505
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1934 catalog

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1942 catalog

Specifications:

Ukulele.
Body width: 185 mm.
Mahogany top.
Mahogany back & sides.
Unbound top.
Unbound back.
Unbound headstock.
Mahogany neck.
Unbound walnut fingerboard with mother-of-pearl dot inlay.
Banjo tuners.
Satin natural finish.
One year warranty.

Introduced: ca 1933

Earliest known example: 101585 (1936)
110780 (1938)
119161 (1939)
121054 (1940)

ca 1942:

Spruce top with undetermined bracing.
Birch back & sides.
Single-bound soundhole.
Perloid fingerboard dot inlay.
Sunburst finish.

Latest known example: 169561 (1946)