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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1542605, member: 15199&quot;]That is for the SNow-1 variety. There is also a 1888 snow-2&nbsp; (1888/7) that has had several articles written as to its origin, but I think the OP is talking about an unknown variety above.</p><p><br /></p><p>The area circled as a &quot;7&quot; doesn&#039;t look to have the shape of a &quot;7&quot; from 1887, the topseems straighter, and the vertical bar isn&#039;t right either in my mind, and I can think of no reason why it should be so far to the right, as the 4 digits were held in a holder to impress into the die, so although&nbsp; they can be repunched at different angles, heights, etc., the numerals are usually very close to identical in spacings one from another. If it was a repunch from a 1888 over an 1887 die like die #1, the last 7 would be almost obliterated by the last 8, if it was offset as much as the circled part, you could see remnents of the 188 of the 1887 between the 1888.&nbsp; Hard to explain <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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