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It has "Pat.11-12-18" on the pickguard.
I was told by Elderly that it was from 1918.
If the patent wasn't granted until mid-november of 1918, how likely is it that the tailpiece would have been stamped (using a die) in time to go on a mandolin by the end of the year?
How do patent grant dates work--do you get advance notice of the day it's going to be granted? Or is the date the day you file your application?
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
C.S. Lewis
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