Musica Steyr Austria: a NOT-Amati mystery??

[mpcbliss]

I understand that Musica Steyr was in the past made by Amati.
However, it's a separate company with actual manufacturing facilities in Austria..........UMI bought the company in 1990.
Amati stencils are often nailed down by the bell-body brace from what I've read.
This one doesn't have an Amati-style: it's a solid sheet, with 2 different-sized holes (maybe 1/2" and 3/4") in the middle for decoration.

It also has a switchable G# articulation like the SML's.
And separate post-on-plate construction like SDA.
The keyguards look like Amati, however.

So my question: The fact that it's stamped Austria (not as part of model name, it's stamped rather than engraved, and in smaller letters) rather than Kraslice (or Graslitz), and the fact that they do in fact have a separate factory there, and that UMI bought it, and the bell brace is different: is it definitely an Amati or not????
This is not a wartime horn, where sometimes an area was Austria and another time it was Czech.
THERE IS also a circle with the letters "IL" within it under the serial number.....does that mean anything to anyone?
Thanks for your help.

[pease-pudding]

I recently purchased one of these and contacted Amati about it. They confirm that they manufactured them in the 80's and that they were then sent to Steyr who finished them and put the serial number on, hence the Austria stamp. In addition I managed to find a German site which had a partial picture of a 1955 Amati tenor seeingly showing exactley this bell brace so wonder if they used an older desgn/tooling for this model.