What this all says to me is that the bass in your picture is a copy of a Fender Jazz that would have only been produced by Fender in 1973 or 74. So, I'm guessing the bass dates to the mid or later 70's.
I only have one lead so far on the brand name Ranger. It was used on budget Japanese guitars probably built by Kawai in the late 60's or early 70's. Here is a picture of the logo I found and the guitar the logo was on:


Obviously the script in the logo on the guitar is different than the logo on the bass. I see two possibilities. Ranger updated their logo design in the 1970's or these are two different companies. I have no evidence to choose one possibility over the other.  
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:28 pm
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