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1937 catalog

Specifications: 8-string Mandolin. Arched top & back. Body width: 260 mm. Hand carved top & back. Spruce top. 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. Introduced: ca 1937 as a replacement for Model 380. Earliest known example: 106550 (1937) 112476 (1938) ca 1942: Walnut or flame maple back & sides. Walnut neck. Changed tailpiece design. ca 1943: Perloid inlay in headstock and fingerboard. 142661 (1943) 159649 (1945) 1640xx (1945) 168005 (1946) ca 1946: Tuners with no wheel screw. 173786 (1946) - (changed bridge) 190046 (1947) Latest known example: 191207 (1947) ca 1947: Replaced by Model 40 Aristokrat.