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Jul-28-2010, 10:20am
July 28, 1896, Benjamin N. Rethey of Champaign, Illinois filed U.S. Patent # 573356 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=NTNFAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1) for improvements in shell material of bowlback mandolins.
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