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Hi Rene, Thanks for making the survey, I look forward to your analysis. Here is my submission. No marking on the on/off lever.

Mark

Here's mine,marked 'switch'

http://imageupper.com/i/?S1200010020011 ... 4161272933

Thanks for that! Yours is the second-earliest that I have documented so far.

The photo of the marked switch.

C’mon folks, find my N’s Easter egg!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)

I know what it is! Let's see if anyone else spots it, Peter!

Mike Sorter

PeterF wrote: Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:23 pm C’mon folks, find my N’s Easter egg!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)

New York?

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

There’s a story behind it, which I will tell eventually. Might be rare rare rare, might be bald-faced fraud, might be something in between...

I sure want to hear that story. I'm hard-pressed to imagine Columbia putting together and shipping out a Type N long after the Type A was in production. I can imagine a couple of very tenuous scenarios (scenarii?) but I don't know if they align with the story.

Here are two.

How about an Electric one - 43402 - nothing on switch.
And a coin-op one - 44970 - (no switch )