Re: Help identify: unusual body shape
$70 is a great price (usually several hundred), assuming that crack across the front of the headstock is solidly repaired.
As a generality, they're well-but-very-lightly built, so have the potential to sound good, although far from a bluegrass machine. They have (I think), the 13" scale length that's common on Martin mandolins and very little else, whereas Gibson and most modern ones use a 13 7/8 scale.
The original black plastic (bakelite?) pickguard was held on by those two guitar bridge pins in the top. The outline of it may show in any fading or patina of the soundboard.
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