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[yollector]

I have a pink top / green bottom double header same as the ones
in your box / ( I got it from Don Duncan Jr. years ago )
 and we also have one in the National yoyo  top museum /
but mine says yankee boy on it not double header / What
do yours say on them ?
                    RFC

[ta0]

I have a pink top / green bottom double header same as the ones
in your box / ( I got it from Don Duncan Jr. years ago )
 and we also have one in the National yoyo  top museum /
but mine says yankee boy on it not double header / What
do yours say on them ?
                    RFC

The ones I have and all the ones I have seen say: "Duncan's Double Header / PAT. PEND."

Most Yankee Boys had a foil stamp, but I have seen the photo of one that was printed.  Anyway, you have a rare misprint.

[yollector]

mine is printed
   RFC

[ta0]

Two tops with the crowns printed as Yankee Boys but very unusual were just auctioned on Ebay by the same collector (1,2, but it seems there was some kind of problem with the first auction because it has been relisted).

The first one appears to be a just a Double Header that was printed with the Yankee Boy logo, like the one Richy mentioned:



Except that if you look carefully, the tip of the larger top is not the usual one for a Double Header (or Yankee) but a ball tip.    Does yours has this tip, Richy?

The second one doesn't look at all as a Duncan top, it is a one-piece wooden top  (pictured beside a regular Yankee Boy):



The shape actually is very similar (identical ?) to that of Royal Champion Trom-Po from the 50's   

EDIT:  I contacted the seller about another auction I won and asked him if he was a collector.  He said no, he had purchased 1350 tops from a collector in Oklahoma City!

[ta0]

A third complete box of Double Headers went on auction (link) and sold in a few hours. But the price was extremely steep: the best offer price is not disclosed but as it sold so fast it cannot be very far from the Buy It Now price of $2,500! 

This same collector had sold an individual Double Header with instructions sheet for $200 (discussed here), so I guess his estimate was honest, although my estimate of value would have been a little less than half of his.