Aria A-626 Twelve string

[mirose]

Im trying to find some information about a twelve string Aria, modelnumber: A-626, serial: 351.
It would be great to know when it is manufactured and some history behind this on.

Please help me out here:)

BR Mike
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[PickerAUS]

A nice clean pic would be good. Does it look old?
From the model number, I would guess that it's a pre-Matsumoku, except Aria didn't use model numbers before 1971, however I read somewhere that Aria used some model numbers very inconsistently.
So at a guess, and without a pic, it was made between either 1967 and 1971 or between 1971 and 1975. The only other thing is that Shiro Arai did use manufacturers other than Matsumoku.

[PickerAUS]

Mirose sent me some pics.
This one is certainly worth a look:






Now 5 tuners + 5 tuners = 10 tuners right?

Had me stumped for a while as the original pic was very dark... then when I zapped the brightness I saw the 2 empty top holes where D - G should be.

This really looks to me to be mid 70's or before. Pre Matsumoku?
I think the '67 to '71 may be in the right cricket pitch ermm.. ball park.
Whaddayathink?
Sneakypete? Anything from Japanese sources on this one?