Striped Tigers and their Marks

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Of all the Republican Orders Striped Tiger has the most diverse number of different and very interesting marks. This thread will be completely devoted to them.

Tiger Reverses

Order of the Striped Tiger has several types of reverses

• Plain reverse without any marks
  

• Reverse with “seal” mark
  

• Reverse with two marks: “seal” mark and “arable numerals/roman characters” mark (“digital” mark in our discussion). It is quite interesting that “digital” mark come only and only together with seal mark!
  

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“Seal” marks have always placed under the fastening screw and “arable numerals/roman characters” mark always under this screw. The following is an example of such positioning.

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Now let’s examine these seal and digital marks.

Seal Marks

Variation S1 (attributed to Lao Tien Lie workshop, Canton)

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Here we have nice example of this mark on reverse of this beautiful 5^th class Tiger.

Obverse

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Reverse

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And another 5^th class Tiger from the same manufacturer with exactly the same mark

Obverse

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Reverse

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Comparison of medallions

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Variation S2 (attributed to Yung Zeng workshop, Canton)

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Variation S3

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Variation S4

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Digital Marks

Variation D1

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This digital mark was found on 1^st class set of Striped Tiger that belonged to American Numismatic Society and was sold on April 26, 2007 at Morton&Eden auction. Under the screw was this S1 seal mark

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Let`s look at this beatiful set.

Breast star obverse

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Breast star reverse

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Badge obverse

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Badge reverse

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Variation D2

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This digital mark was found on 5^th class Tiger which under its screw has S2 seal mark

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Here we have another example of 5^th class Tiger with such markes

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And another example, but this time it is 4^th class Tiger

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Variation D3

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This digital mark was found on 5^th class Tiger which under its screw has S3 seal mark

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Variation D4

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This digital mark was found on 8^th class Tiger which under its screw has S5 (sorry folks - I forget about this one ... So this post will also introduce S5 seal mark )