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| Specifications: |
| Cutaway. |
| Body width: 420 mm. |
| Body length: 510 mm. |
| Hand carved top & back. |
| Romanian spruce top with undetermined bracing. |
| Mahogany or walnut back & sides. |
| 4-ply bound top with double-bound f-holes. |
| 4-ply bound back. |
| Triple-bound pickguard. |
| Mahogany neck with non-adjustable T-shaped duraluminum truss rod. |
| Triple-bound headstock with perloid music sharp sign inlay. |
| Single-bound ebony fingerboard with perloid block inlay. |
| Grover Sta-Tite style tuners. |
| Gold plated hardware. |
| Sunburst (3) or natural (3N) finish. |
| Ten year warranty. |
| Also available with a |
| Wingtone pickup (1950 Levin catalog). |
| Electro Wingtone pickup |
| (shown here with a Model 2 Solist pickguard). |
| Also available as 8-string Mando-Cello (xxxxxx) - (Circa 1947 - Circa 1951) - (at least one made, probably on custom order). |
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| Introduced: Circa November 1947 |
| as a replacement for Royal. |
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| Earliest known example: 194304 (1947) |
| 195824 (1948) - (repro pickguard) |
| 214054 (1949) |
| 226856 (1949) |
| 237042 (1950) |
| 301221 (1953) - (added pickup, missing pickguard) |
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| Circa 1950: |
| Large bridge thumbwheels. |
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| 233348 (1950) - (repro pickguard) |
| 237042 (1950) - (repro pickguard) |
| 246746 (1951) - (missing pickguard) |
| 245956 (1951) |
| 249682 (1951) - (missing pickguard) |
| 260002 (1951) - (refinished top, added pickup) |
| 261666 (1951) |
| 262962 (1951) - (refinished, added pickup, changed pickguard & bridge) |
| 278647 (1952) |
| 289869 (1952) - (added pickup) |
| 293514 (1953) |
| 300191 (1953) - (added pickup, changed pickguard) |
| 318408 (1954) - (added pickup) |
| 339330 (1956) |
| 349178 (1956) |
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| Circa 1957: |
| Adjustable truss rod. |
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| Latest known example: 356519 (1957) - (changed tuners) |
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