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Can anyone age my Weltmeister

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Ben-jammin

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In the mid 90s my parents bought me my first full size accordion, the same as in the picture but with a red badge. I still have it but it’s missing the black plastic bit with the badge so I used an image found online of the same model for this post. When it was bought I seem to recall the seller claim it was from the 60s which I’m skeptical of. I’ve seen some similar instruments named 90s series from eastern european sellers on eBay but never seen an explicit reference to a model or decade of production. Anybody know when Weltmeister was building them like this?

Not trying to muddy the waters, it is a different Weltmeister in my profile picture.
 

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It has "waterfall keys" - the end of the keys are square and not rounded.
I think they went out of fashion sometime around 1950-1960, although Weltmeister was East German so possibly a bit later for them but I've got no evidence for that.
My 1959 Hohner Lucia and late 50's Scandalli both have 'modern' rounded keys.

Here's a similar 'vintage' Weltmeister on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124422004140
 
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