Michael G, At 11:34 11/18/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Hello list and Robin Hufford > I think, in >1910, the company must have become concerned with people being able to >read these so they substituted a letter where the year would have >been. One must count alphabetically the number the letter represents, >beginning with the letter A and add to this ten. This then represents >the year of the dating. I've known about this practice for some time but never knew the starting year. For a while, I tried to remember to record the work letter/number for each S$S I tuned and relate them to the year manufactured. Unfortunately, I do not have a vast collection of serial numbers, but I _have_ come to the suspicion that they didn't/don't use all the letters of the alphabet in this practice. Can anyone confirm or deny my suspicions? Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076 - Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
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