I may be wrong but I have only ever seen late 30s Kluson amber buttons- as you can see here:
https://umgf.com/1930-s-kluson-amber...d-t185697.html
Your tuners appear to be typical Waverly tuners with the sawtooth ends to the plates which were common in the teens and twenties. Have a look at the archive and look for photos of mandolins during that period. Various types of tuners were used in terms of the plates- arrow end, engraved etc and the earlier Handel tuners. Somebody else may have a different opinion to mine: http://www.mandolinarchive.com/perl/...ndolins.pl?all
I maybe wrong, but those tuners don't look like '24 tuners at all (may have been old stock, though). Check out this thread: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...highlight=onyx
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AFAIK the coffee colored knobs appear on a few arrow end tuners around '23/'24 (also on F4s BTW). The wiggle end tuners on the OP's A Jr. should be earlier than '23/'24.
Those look to be circa 1921 Waverly's to me, they have the amberish lines through the button-like marble effect-thats what it reminds me of. My 21 K-4 has the same buttons and when I talked with David Harvey he asked if my 21 K-4 had those tuners buttons as they were on the rare side and done around 21. I sure hope I'm saying this correctly of our phone conversation. I guess one could look in the archive pix?
Those look to be circa 1921 Waverly's to me, they have the amberish lines through the button-like marble effect-thats what it reminds me of. My 21 K-4 has the same buttons and when I talked with David Harvey he asked if my 21 K-4 had those tuners buttons as they were on the rare side and done around 21. I sure hope I'm saying this correctly of our phone conversation. I guess one could look in the archive pix?
I know these are way different looking than the standard cream type ivoried buttons from the teens thru the 30's.
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