Oops, yeah, no date code. Not always a dependable thing.

There are some very early 1899's in the first couple years that seem to pop up with silver colored rotors, don't know if they are steel or some type of pot metal. Then we have some that show up after WWII, then we have a fairly big batch of steel ones that are case colored in the early 50's.

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