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Posted: **Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:19 pm**

The earliest Operas also had gunmetal-finish mandrels, that soon changed to oxidized.

Posted: **Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:14 am**

TinfoilPhono wrote:The earliest Operas also had gunmetal-finish mandrels, that soon changed to oxidized.

Forgot about that. I also have an Opera with gun metal mandrel. I would have thought the gun metal mandrels were generally a bit later and the earliest ones were oxidized. The sn on my Opera is 1677,

Posted: **Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:25 am**

Mine is #10 and totally original. I'm surprised they ran with gunmetal as high as the 1600s.

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