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1940 catalog

Specifications: Non-cutaway. Body width: 445 mm. Body length: 530 mm. Hand carved top & back. Romanian spruce top. Flame maple back & sides. Triple-bound top with single-bound f-holes. Single-bound back. Single-bound pickguard. Flame maple neck with non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod. Single-bound headstock with mother-of-pearl diamond inlay. Single-bound rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl diamond inlay. Nickel plated hardware. Sunburst finish. Ten year warranty. Also available as 4-string Tenor Guitar (Model 22 TG). Introduced: ca 1940 Earliest known example: 125413 (1941) Latest known maple example: 126637 (1941) - This example has a changed fingerboard. ca 1942: Walnut back & sides. Mahogany neck. Walnut fingerboard. Pearloid fingerboard inlay. Earliest known walnut example: 142791 (1943) 144053 (1944) 145349 (1944) 147243 (1944) - (changed pickguard) 165905 (1945) Latest known example: 184952 (1947)