I found some online ads purporting to offer a retopped 1979 Nugget F for $4,000.
There can't be many retopped Nuggets. No. 43 was retopped, and some of the photos in these ads are photos of No. 43 that appear both at Sandy Munro's website and in the Mandolin Archive.
Other photos purport to show the fretboard scooped, and may have been taken from a legitimate ad.
I know that Nugget 43 was listed for sale by Sandy in 2012 for $19,500 or so; I don't know what's happened to it since then.
Note that there are 3 different ads offering the mandolin in 3 different cities with the same description.
I made contact with the seller and was told the mandolin is now in London, UK.
I don't believe these ads are real. If you know who owns Nugget 43, you might notify that person that someone's running a scam on their mandolin.
https://www.shoppok.com/dallas/a,55,...F-Mandolin.htm
https://www.shoppok.com/denver/a,55,...F-Mandolin.htm
https://m.freeclassifieds.com/detail...sP81NbkfI9hg==
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