Posted 06/17/2011 10:43 am
Top left is a booby head, top right is petite head. Bottom left is also a booby head, and I believe the bottom right is a silly head with damage to the hair curl at the top of the forehead. Looks like N-4.
There are five heads in 1839
Head of 1836 N-1 Has plain hair cords, everything else has beaded hair cords
Head of 1838 N-2 & 3 No prominent hair curl at the top of the forehead. Everything else has that curl.
Petite head N-8 Head tipped forward, point of bust above 8 in date.
Booby Head N-5,6,7,11-15 Prominent hair curl at top of forehead, point of bust at bottom right extends past the curl.
Silly Head N-4,9 Prominent hair curl at top of forehead, point of bust at bottom right does NOT extend past the curl.
Although the album calls for a "regular" 1839, no such thing exists. If you don't want to duplicate the head type in one of the other four holes you'll need the N-1 head of 36, and that one will cost you unless you can cherrypick it. It isn't a rare variety, but it is popular and therefor expensive. It also has the problem that the obv die failed in an interesting manner and some people collect it by die stage.
There are five heads in 1839
Head of 1836 N-1 Has plain hair cords, everything else has beaded hair cords
Head of 1838 N-2 & 3 No prominent hair curl at the top of the forehead. Everything else has that curl.
Petite head N-8 Head tipped forward, point of bust above 8 in date.
Booby Head N-5,6,7,11-15 Prominent hair curl at top of forehead, point of bust at bottom right extends past the curl.
Silly Head N-4,9 Prominent hair curl at top of forehead, point of bust at bottom right does NOT extend past the curl.
Although the album calls for a "regular" 1839, no such thing exists. If you don't want to duplicate the head type in one of the other four holes you'll need the N-1 head of 36, and that one will cost you unless you can cherrypick it. It isn't a rare variety, but it is popular and therefor expensive. It also has the problem that the obv die failed in an interesting manner and some people collect it by die stage.
