Hey Ford, nice to have your expertise back.

I also have 3 hollers:

(i) Early with Pack cross guard and fittings, detailed pommel and scabbard fittings with acorns; tapered tang (this is the Albert Geiger personalized piece I bought from you some time ago). It has 17 ticks in the TM.

(ii) Standard Holler cross guard and fittings, detailed scabbard bands but no acorns. It also has 17 ticks

(iii) Standard Holler cross guard and fittings, fittings and scabbard lack detail and quality of the other standard holler I have. It has 11 ticks.

Given your early pieces with tapered tangs have 17 ticks I am now thinking that there must have been a brief period of time during the standard Holler fittings production that the TM with 19 ticks was used as Wittmann's 19 tick TM piece also has standard fittings. Perhaps it was even issued between the 17 ticks and 11 tick TM versions. Or perhaps they reverted back to the 17 ticks a short time after using the 19 tick TM. Further input and examples required.