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Everything above is correct. The pots are 80's Japanase models, wires are a mix of American and Japanese. The decal over the nitrocellulosic varnish is period correct, but is missing the model name and patent numbers look like gone... The stamp on the neck has the right font for that period with the larger bar on the right part of the A. The fingerboard wood must be Brazilian rosewood, but it really looks like Indian rosewood, which was used later. The pickups are period correct (wire type, grey bottom, no stamp). I won't repeat what others already said, so read it again as everything is right. I definitely need more high definition photos to go further...

Been a bit busy this week and forgot to put a few up with Flabba on bass, it was his 75th birthday the other day and he’s still going strong, such a great player with exceptional timing , there’s so many to choose from so here’s a few, police in helicopter is probably one of my favourites, do you have any? Hugh Mundell Barrington Levy Sugar Minott

My L series is in the same place as above.

Ill try a squirt of deoxit as suggested

Yes I'll try that. I have a can in the music room

Not clear enough picture to tell

Yep agreed I just tried it thru my mark bass cl115 Sounds epic with my HW4003

No document on signal chain but the way it reponds to tone knobs indicates (to me) that the toneprint is before eq.

A 64 neckplate should look like this , currently for sale on ATB

Apologies, I'm not able to at the moment.

Also the pots look quite new…

Can you show your neck plate please for comparison- maybe block out some digits

I’ve read what people here have written who know far more than me and I agree. Only if it’s cheap … would be my view, and the neck and frets look like trouble brewing

It would be a good idea to go and have a look at it before bidding if possible to see what it’s really like up close

Headstock from my L serial number 1964 J. Looks like decal is under the varnish to me. Although looking closer at the photo (bass is a bit harder to look at ATM) there is a chip off the decal, so maybe it's on top of varnish?

Yeah, the whole bottom region seems to call up the window.

That twisted neck puts me off. Would need serious luthier attention. AFAIK decal on varnish is right for early 60s. Don't know about 64.

It's a problem because although the "choose files…" is underlined to indicate it is a link, clicking anywhere on the whole line from the D of "Drag files" up to the left edge of the Other Media button will bring up the dialog box even though the cursor only turns into the pointy hand on the underlined text. Either make just the underlined text the link or make the cursor change to the pointy hand everywhere that will bring up the dialog box.