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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

at the signatures of some of the guys on your certificate and just commenting on them.......they don't really look like signatures from 'the day' if you know what I mean........they are more contemporary type signatures. The white cert that I posted has signatures more common with the 1870's. Plus they are clearly fountain pen signatures and the signatures on your (and my) certs look more like ballpoint. I wonder if the certificates were either:

(1) re-issued to re-capitalize the team at a later date with the 1876 date being historically based.......

OR

(2) re-issued as a souveneir type thing for people to put their own names on....

Just some hypotheses.........