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Any help would be appreciated. So far I'm only told its from the 70's

We need the serial number to give you a more exact year than the seventies...

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I'm not sure a serial number will help on this one. When did they start denoting year?
Without studying the pics, I'm gonna guess '70-'74.

Well I bought it anyway and upon further inspection there is no serial # other that on a Kramer plate on the back which has now totally confused me. Thinking it may have been randomly added later. I checked the Kramer serial # listing and I don't think they had this style at all.

The Kramer plate isn't original. One thing that stands out to me about this is the binding front and rear. Around '77 binding on the rear started to disappear, even on copies. I have a Global LP copy from '77 or '78 w/o it.

*EDIT* - check the Aria Solidbodies section, 5th from the bottom. http://www.matsumoku.org/models/aria/aria.html
1970-74 5522G (L*P Goldtop)

Looks te me like you hit the nail right on the head Jorg. There has been some juggling going on with the hardware though. The SD's are certainly aftermarket, the neckplate 's from the bin, and who knows where the pickguard, bridge, stop etc. came from ...
Nice guitar anyway, s13koop!

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Thanks for all the help guys.
Overall I really dig this guitar!!