The dealer sends the flag from the broken lighthouse to get a replacement now, but that wasn't always the case. They trusted their dealers were telling the truth that a lighthouse arrived broken and replaced it, usually just with another lighthouse with a different number but if it was a very low number they had on occasion replaced the lighthouse with the same numbered lighthouse. I believe that the actual times that this happened were very few over the years and that there were even much, much fewer times that a dealer tried to get two lighthouses with the same low number.

Having said all of that, of the few that might be out there with the same number it would be even rarer to be able find the pair of them with the same number.


[This message has been edited by engbrady (edited 05-12-2002).]