What is my bass?

[Elisabeth Steves]

Nice! We are looking over a virtual "twin" to this bass in the shop and working to help the owner to ID it. Ken's info on this bass, as always, is very helpful. Ours has the same light brown varnish - it looks a lot like that on a Hornsteiner we worked on a while back, though I understand that workshop was not in the same region. We also have a Markneukirchen bass with the similar plain purfling under the button, but the varnish is much more amber with none of the brown which almost looks greenish in some light. I'm trying to post pics of the one that's like Mr. Sallee's, but my browser (or something) is not playing nice. Will try again later on a different computer.