So your theory is that somebody faked the wrong checkering onto an EG? Because finding an example of EG checkering is really, really hard?

It may not be factory. But special checkering WAS available. The standard EG checkering hadn't been created yet. So I don't see how anybody can dismiss this as definitively fake.

Last edited by Calhoun; 12/20/21.

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