Some call these the "transitional" link or the true Early Babbitt since it was made around 1980 and is usually longer or thicker than the standard link of the last 30 years. There is a small market for them. Look on Theo Wanne's site for some more info on them. I have had a few that were quite good.
While I think there are transitional EB links, I think it's very hard to tell one from just a regular Babbitt link. Longer shank usually is the indicator as well as quotes. But they stopped using the quotes simply because the stamping got worn out, not to denote a different model.
By that measure link hasn't tried to denote a different model since the 50's. These are all just little anomolies that we use to determine the time periods.
They used too....
But somewhere else on sotw it says... Until the stamp became worn and the quotes were left off the new stamp.
I don't know when that was but it was definately after the period that that people generally refer to as Early Babbitt though.
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