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1953 National
"New Yorker"
Lapsteel

  • very beautiful art-deco design with stairstep
        sides (like the Empire State Building)

  • creme & black vertical striped body

  • metal 'National" logo shield

  • black Lucite fretboard

  • back-painted multi-colored Roman numeral
        fretboard markers

  • large square pickup/bridge combination

  • clear plastic pickup/bridge cover

  • tone control potentiometer on bass side

  • three-way tone switch with "bass," "mellow"
        and "brilliant"

  • "New Yorker" below tone switch

  • creme plastic buttons on chrome "National"
        closed strip tuners

  • introduced in 1935; discontinued in 1967

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