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Old 09-17-2012, 11:42 PM
gerryfortin gerryfortin is offline
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Default Estes Rainbow Hang Tag Varieties Update

Wish to share that there are at least four different rainbow hang tag designs or varieties available with careful searching.

In the past few weeks, I've started to write the kit description pages for 1979-1984 exotic kits with rainbow hang tags and black paper hang tags. I immediately discovered that my Solar Sailer had a rainbow hang tag that was different than the Large Letters and Small Letters versions listing in the hang tag guide.

The Solar Sailer (http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/...solarsailer.htm) rainbow hang tag is a Large Letter design but with a white pricing oval. This layout appears to match the Version 2 skill level hang tags before both the rainbow and skill level hang tag were updated with french and english language within a front rectangle. I plan to call this the "Version 1 Large Letters" rainbow hang tag.

Now to complicate the situation further, I posted the individual kit description for the Star Ship Nova this week (http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/...tarshipnova.htm) and discovered it has a different rainbow hang tag design. The front of this hang tag is similar to Large Letters design in the hang tag guide but the back is completely different. I suspect this may be the final rainbow version due to the amount of safety/legal text on the back. I plan to call this the "Version 3 Large Letters" rainbow hang tag while the common Large Letters as illustrated in the hang tag guide will be labeled Version 2. For Small Letters, we only have a single layout so far.

The Hang Tag guide will be updated accordingly. (http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/...ngtag_guide.htm)

Thought serious kit collector's may wish to know and check their own collections.
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