Re: Possible year/make
A detail that can be telling to some are the tuning gears themselves, on the back of the headstock. Some early European gears (maybe specific to a country and/or timeframe) are distinctly different from more modern gears, with the cogs being somewhat square and seperated from their neighbor by a slim triangle, while the worm is relatively knife-edge, to fit into that open triangle, and seperated from its next wind by a u-shaped valley.
Attachment of the cog the tuning post can also differ by region & period, with various sorts of rivet or peening preceeding our more modern machine screws.
- Ed
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