Paint Dog,

It might help if you shared the name and location of the vendor you purchased the item from.

Can you make a scan or photo of your particular box and post it?

This set has been in limbo for quite some time so any boxes printed for the set must have been stored somewhere for a long time before somehow getting loose into the distribution chain.

The box came via a chap I found on Ebay. He is an Australian vendor.

The box looks exactly like this one:
http://www.hat.com/Curr2/Bx8134ETRU.html

It has the art work on the front "defaced" with a swirling line from a black marker. The box is also partly covered with brown packing tape.

I figure that it *may* have come from Mr Andy Gorman of New Zealand:
http://www.hat.com/Othr7/Gorman15P.html

or some one else who got a test box & contents.

Anyway, it's a mystery.

donald