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Aug-24-2011, 1:20am
August 24, 1897, Edward F. Howe (Howe-Orme) of Wateron, Massachusetts awarded U.S. Patent #27559 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=V00XAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP1) for a new and original mandolin body design.

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