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Posted By: scgaynor

I have not heard anybody comment that they are modern prints, but it seems that the only people who think that they are from the 1880s are people who have a financial interest in them being from the 1880s.

I also don't understand why some would have advertising for Lucky Curve and Bats, when those brands didn't exist until many years after N173's were produced. The earliest Bats tin that I have seen is from the 1920s or 1930s.

If it does date from the 1880s, is odd that the person would use the term "proof" well before its time. He might as well have written "future N173's."

Scott