Gerry Mulligan's bari

I have a video of Gerry Mulligan, (probably one of his last ones), and he is playing his Conn bari. Does anyone out there know the year of his Conn? It has the split bell keys and neck octave on the top of the neck. My guess is that it is a New Wonder Series II but actually what year? I have a 1928 Conn bari, split bell keys and neck octave on the top of the neck and a 1931 Conn bari and it has the bell keys both on the right side of the bell. The 1928 model looks like Mulligan's. What year were the split bell keys finally completely phased out? Thanks for any info.

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