Is this French or German?

[Mike Weems]

I should have titled the post "unlabeled bass help Id". I have been a lutheir for the past 30plus years so I should have known better than to attempted to suggest an origin until received word from this form. Restoration and repair is quite a different animal than instrument identification. I violated my own rule "when in doubt it Germany". I know it must get quite tedious for you have to correct I D problems of this nature. Having written that thank you so much for the pointers and information of your previous post. As always that is invaluable to me. Rest assured that I would never sell an instrument as something that it's not. So the bass that I posted for the owner, is there an idea of when it might of been made?