First thing, Rick it is great to hear you are finally getting better big guy and congrats on your newly delivered HL's. Also received mine today: HL106 North Head (brown box, Calif, #7 with a really nice paint job; HL123 Michigan City #7 Mal; HL192 LaJument, HL290 Anclote Key, HL331 Fowey Rocks and HL338 Galveston Jetty all #8.
Big thanks to Tony for taking care of me and getting them out so soon.
Also, a special thanks to Bill Younger for letting us have a slice of these special low number pcs.
One theory as far as the numbering of 1-10 goes, HL starts by numbering at #11 and at some point just sets aside 10 pcs. during the run, numbers them 1-10 and sets them aside in the warehouse w/o really focusing on them being the first run pcs.
For what it is worth, I'm very happy to have some of these special low # pcs that have some significance in that they were tied to Bill Younger. From this point forward, the low numbers are just "low numbers."
Thanks again Tony.
