Hi Jim,

I think there's still a little confusion here.

What you are talking about is BINGCHA - the emblem changed from Zhongcha Pai
to Crane IN 2004.

What was discussed once is about TUOCHA - the emblem changed from Zhongcha
Pai to Crane IN 1992.

Did you mention Cooked Iron Cake? Xiaguan didn't produce many series of
cooked iron cakes, the picture you had looks very much like the 8603 cooked
iron cake produced in 2003.

The Crane emblem cake you showed is more confusing. In all appearance it
looks like the 8673 cake produced this year. However, from what I know, all
cakes produced with the line of code on the left in small red print, and the
green words "Yunnan Sheng Zhu Ming Shang Biao" (A famous brand from Yunnan)
over the crane emblem, the big red characters framing the top and bottom of
the cake should be in SIMPLE characters.

Wrappers without the code on the left and the green words under the crane
emblem would have the big red framing characters in FANG TI, or complex
characters.

Do you have the inside of the two cakes with the stickers to show?

Danny


"Space Cowboy" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> This is a Xiaguan wrapper prior 2004 with the Zhong Emblem which I can
> find in Chinatown. You can only know it is Xiaguan because the
> blemishes have been identified elsewhere as such. See a previous
> thread about Xiaguan Iron Cake. This is the cooked I almost like.
>
> http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...before2004.jpg
>
> This is the Xiaguan wrapper after 2004 with the Crane emblem. My
> Chinatown is still selling their old wrapper.
>
> http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...nafter2004.jpg
>
> Jim
>
> samarkand wrote:
>> "Space Cowboy" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>
>> > So the Crane emblem on a XG tuocha isn't an anachronism when the
>> > production date on the bottom of the box says Jan 2000? I'm not going
>> > to worry about it but someone in the know pointed to an article saying
>> > the Crane emblem was first used by XG in 2003/4.
>>
>> There may be a misreading somewhere... The Crane Emblem was used on
>> TUOCHA
>> since 1992, the Crane Emblem was used on BINGCHA only from Dec 2003 -
>> some
>> said early 2004. Hope this clears up the issue for you.
>>
>> Danny
>