French...or not?

[Jake de Villiers]

I know - I thought Germanic at first too but there's something...

That swell back looks positively violin-like to me, not the smooth, large-radius arc I'm used to seeing on basses. And there's the haughty scowl of the ffs and the gears and the linings. Did you check out the bigger photos?

I'll have a chance to look inside, check it with UV etc when I get the bass on my bench in late July - until then, the pix are all we have.