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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2999781, member: 59677&quot;]Understand, I&#039;m somewhere between AR and CDO (CDO is like OCD, but properly alphabetized). So I have a collection of ANACS SWH by s/n prefix. It started with the 2 letter / 4 number (XXnnnn) from the ANA and early Amos days...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(ANA started the SWH in 1989 and sold ANACS to Amos Press in 1990)</p><p>(Amos Press sold ANACS to Anderson Press [Parent company of Whittman - RedBook] in March 2005 - interestingly, this sale is left off of the ANACS history page...)</p><p>(Anderson sold ANACS to Driving Force LLC in 2007)</p><p>(Driving Force LLC is gone and a new, opaque LLC owns ANACS)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Poking at the ANACS database, however, revealed some interesting things. When they loaded the XXnnnn data, they converted the XX to a prefix number, so they became 1nnnn, 2nnnn.</p><p><br /></p><p>See: <a href="http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.anacs.com/contentPages/BarCode.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But there are gaps. And sure enough, 7nnnn is a valid cert. As is 0nnnn.</p><p><br /></p><p>My collection of XXnnnn grew to include pnnnn.</p><p><br /></p><p>This allows grouping ANACS slab#s into about ten different timegroups....</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>ANA only letters</li> <li>ANA/Amos transition (letters in use by both, EX and RE)</li> <li>Amos letters</li> <li>Amos early numbers (numbers that intersperse with the XX to n conversion in the database, so can&#039;t be proven as to what sequence they were used)</li> <li>Amos middle number (red A hologram)</li> <li>Amos late numbers (gold A hologram) - begins somewhere under 1M (e.g. 99xxxx is gold, but 47xxxx is red)</li> <li>Anderson early numbers</li> <li>Late Anderson SWH</li> <li>Anderson Blue label slant top slabs (started in 2004)</li> <li>Driving Force (Yellow label slant top slabs starting in 2007)</li> </ul><p>So I can post examples of just about ANYTHING you want, from cert# 75 onwards[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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