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Here's a pre-1939 model 1494 Medalist. 1939 was the year that the adjustable drag was introduced and this reel features the earlier spring-and-pawl check system. I acquired it quite a few years ago and have done nothing except to clean it up a bit. I use it a lot, especially fishing for "harvest trout" (sea-run cutthroat) in the summer and fall.