Wanted to share a pretty cool light with you guys. I don't own this one, it was sent in on my blog with a request for some info. I get a lot of inquires from my blog. Some run of the mill, and some really out there. This was one of the more interesting ones I received. So what is it? Like Mr. Fixer's upside down Mini Mag, I believe it is an error light. The serial has a letter at the end and is missing a digit.
It's a NIB 6D. The logo, bezel, and packaging all are from 1986 to 1989. The back of the package is labelled 1988. However, the correct time serial range for that time frame is 200,000 to 400,000. The 6Ds numbered about 600,000 when they switched over to a letter serial in 1992.
An 86,000 serial light would have been produced in the early 80s and an 860,000 serial wouldn't have been until the mid 90s so I'm not entirely sure what happened here. The best I can figure is that the stamping machine was not setup correctly that day or they were trying something new out R&D wise and this one slipped through Quality Control. The owner e-mailed Mag Instrument and they didn't have any information on the light.
Pretty neat considering Mag's QA/QC is very tight. I've only seen a handful of error lights and while they don't fetch big $$$ they are a cool look into Mag's manufacturing processes.