I've taken a closer look on my pickup and it is clean, really clean. It's not possible that a 50 year old pickup looks kinda new, right? It's not staggered but has not cloth wire and the wiring is covered by this black.. thing, if you know what I mean(this is as far as my english goes), well its qui...

Recently bought a 59 musicmaster(my first shortscale), how do I know the pickup is actually '59?
There's no serial or anything on the bottom of it but I've heard that's the way it's supposed to be on pre-CBS Fenders?

btw, it sounds great and the short scale is awesome