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Aug-16-2010, 12:10am
August 16, 1887, George B. Durkee of Lyon & Healy awarded U.S. Patent #368461 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=5hVHAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA29) for improvements in bowlback mandolin construction.
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