What Steve said is dead on. Eastman or Loar, or if you're lucky an old Epi.
As for L-50's/L-48's, these are really a different class of instrument from the more "professional" Gibson and Epi archtops. I can dig something about a 1935-1940 L-50, but even those just aren't the same quality and projection of an L-7 or Triumph, or something further up the line.
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