Angel (by Jiangsu China)

Angel (by Jiangsu China)
At the end of the "2nd wave of Ukulele popularity", (around the first half of the 1970's) the big Chicago makers had all gone, most of the Japanese makers had gone, there were very few Hawaiian makers left and even Martin, whose fortunes had been made in the 1st wave of popularity gave up making Ukulele. Therefore you see very few mass produced Ukuleles made in the late 1970's, 1980's or 1990s. Most of the ones you do see were made in Mainland China, (which was still staunchly Communist at this time), who had come fairly late to jumping on the bandwagon of the 2nd wave. Exact dates are hard to find, in fact any information beyond what it says on the label is hard to find.

Mass production of Ukuleles started in the Shanghai region around the late 1950's or 1960's and continued through until the 1990's with some very budget brands. I have never seen anything that wasn't a Soprano though there was some variation around that scale length and the main brands appear to have come from different factories. As these were the only cheaply produced Ukuleles of the time they were widely exported, even to Hawaii, but this production had ceased before the 3rd wave boom brought a lot of Ukulele manufacture 1200km south in Guangzhou.

Angel was one of these brands but with the sound hole label saying "Made in Jiangsu" and the headstock and body shape being significantly different,this was clearly a different factory from any of the other brands like Lark or Skylark. Beyond this I know nothing so any further information would be useful?