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The instrument pictured above is a Hammond model 2022, according to a correspondent.
It appears to be one of Hammond's later efforts, but is still tube-based, not solid-state.
It has only four chords per key -- major, minor, seventh, diminished. The chord buttons are larger than the ones on the S Series chord organs.
The tone tablets are rearranged, and there are fewer of them. Some of the tablets have standard "organ" names like Flute 16'.
No ideas when this one was produced, but I expect it was the early 1970's. Perhaps it's an example of a Hammond "Sounder".
Update! After a little digging around in the archives of the Hamtech mailing list and a Google Discussion Groups Search, I found a few tidbits of information:
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