These varieties are on the same electro. The top variety corrected a weak band running across the unit resulting in the rigging on the sails being weak and missing. The extensive recutting to correct this so weakened the plate that a crystalline fracture (shown on the bottom stamp) subsequently developed, which zig-zags across the main-mast and sails for 4.5mm.
 
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