Thanks for the photos, Jeff!

Good analysis, John. I too noticed the blue grass, the faded edition number and the peculiar difference between the tower and the spaces between the supports right away, but couldn't figure out why everything would be so uniformly faded. The diffused light of a flourescent tube source explains it nicely. I don't think this could happen with a point light source such as incandescent lamps or natural lighting.

For those who might be curious, my Currituck is close to the one on the right in the photos above, just a tad less reddish than as it appears on my monitor.

My piece matches the one on the right in the actual photos even better (Greydawn was good enough to send a set of photos to me as well).

There still appears to be a chance for a variation here, though. Does anyone out there have one that looks like the one in the 1998 catalog? Can we get some photos?

-Curious George