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1937 catalog

Specifications: 8-string Mandolin. Arched top & back. Body width: 260 mm. Hand carved top. Spruce top. 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. Introduced: ca 1937 Earliest known example: 114173 (1938) ca 1942: Walnut back & sides. Perloid fingerboard inlay. Changed tailpiece design. ca 1943: Walnut fingerboard. Earliest known example: 139692 (1943) 148548 (1944) 149634 (1944) 1xxxxx (1946) 1754xx (1946) - (repro pickguard) Latest known example: 188797 (1947) ca 1947: Replaced by Model 42 Master.