Only the eleventh Fletcher Brock Mandolin ever made! This is an amazing piece of mandolin history. Now known for his octave mandolins, do an image search for samples of the work he has done and read what players have to say about Fletcher Brock today. Has had a few minor things done since 1979 so it isn't completely original but they were improvements, hands down. Not sure if anyone really knows what might have been originally there but it now is adorned with an ebony bridge and gold tuners. This mandolin sounds wonderful and has some unique and never to be seen again features for a Fletcher Brock piece. Look at the headstock Inlay! Fantastic mandolin which comes with the hard shell case where it's spent most of its 38 years.