Second, some of the older numbers are very faintly apparent through the newer finish, yet they don't seem to match up with the newer ones written after the finish.
First, it appears to be refinished as the printed logo is no longer visible, so that can't help me in year at all. I've just purchased my first Shakespeare bow. I wouldn't worry too much about the anomalies I would expect a fairly high error level given that someone is working in a factory marking a hundred or more of these a day. I'm trying to determine if the next digit (or two) might stand for day of the month.or if all of the interior digits are just serial. I think the next digit represents the year of the decade.Ocalas and Kaibabs are easy ones to check this on, because the 66's and 67's had the pretty zebra windows, and all the other years were ugly! Show me a zebra-windowed Ocala or Kaibab that doesn't have a 6 or a 7 as the first digit.I haven't found one yet. They skipped using the letter I because it looks too much like 1, so after H for August, they went to J for September, K for October, L for November, and finished with M for December.
I think the first letter stands for the month of manufacture-A is for January, B for February, and so on.
