There are bridge, nut, knob and tuner variations during different time periods as well but with all the brands they were offered in it can be hard to nail these down. There were originally round holes with ferrules to feed the strings through on the back that was later sometimes replaced with a stamped one-piece affair to feed the strings through on the last versions. 1950 and enlarged and mounted straight after. The cover over the pickup (hand rest) was angled before ca. The fingerboard was black, then became cream colored about the same time (around 1950). The headstock (after the tulip shaped early models was more rounded on the end (ca.'47)and became squared off after a few years. ![]() Generally: Pot codes are often there but not always easy to see. ![]() ![]() I've got a mess of old MOTS Magnatones and their relatives and there are a number of keys to date them.
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