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       The Strad-O-Lin company of Chicago, active in the 1940s, farmed out
      some of its production to various small-shop luthiers, resulting in a wide
      variation in quality among its acoustic mandolins. Some are merely
      adequate, and some are quite nice. The company also produced a few
      electrics. The one on the left is definitely a Strad-O-Lin, but I'm not
      sure about the one on the right. (I have played one, and it wasn't that
      exciting.) As for the one below, it appears to be an oval-hole acoustic 
		that someone tricked out with a pair of pickups.