Martin made a couple on the C-2 body in the early-30's, and Stefan Sobell built this one in 1987:
I don't know of any other purely acoustic 12-string archtops, although Hofner made a few single-cutaway jazzboxes with built-in pickups in the mid/late-60's and several manufacturers (Gibson/Epiphone, Guild, Fender, various Japanese firms) produced thinlines and semi-hollows through the early-70's...
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